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Stew art, a professor of cardn
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Hospital in Adelaide. Austraiu
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a precursor to stroke and te*
failure twei of the most cos
ly. deadly and disabling of<fc
eases the potential to w
lives, and money, is enormous,
he said.
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determined that heart attacks
heart failure and heart-relaif’
sudden deaths are more o
mon in winter. ,
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surprised at the findings, il^f
said the study is the first todoc
ument a seasonal influence <*
chaotic heart rhythm.
“That is the time forfiua^
pneumonia and we know
that may be a cause of atni
fibrillation.” said Dr.
Yves Le Heuzey, an atrial k
filiation specialist at the Pi err ’
and Marie Curie University»
Paris.
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when the two small upper chan)-
bers of the heart (the atru
quiver instead of beating e,tt MjHninht
lively. Blood isn’t pumpedcott *VMUmym
pletely out of them, so it i" 3 IPiapprop
pool and clot. Clots that traveli
the brain can cause strokes. At the Aug. .
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used a nationwide regislry «'
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idemify all hospital adtimsi* hurtfu| y P; hj|e
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1996 and all deaths occurring ^ m . nc
those patients between I > » exjsts on the £
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adniission^relatcd to chao* 0) ^xual tneq
heart beat — about 93 adrni 5
sions a day. .
Significantly more P e0 7
were checked into the hospital 1
the winter than in the summer
In both men and women, t e
peak rate was in Decemb^
Hospital admissions were 9
cent higher than normal amor-
men and 12 percent higher than
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