Cardiac Mortality Is Higher Around Christmas and New Year’s Than at Any Other Time
Open Access
- 21 December 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 110 (25) , 3781-3788
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000151424.02045.f7
Abstract
Background— Research published in Circulation has shown that cardiac mortality is highest during December and January. We investigated whether some of this spike could be ascribed to the Christmas/New Year’s holidays rather than to climatic factors.Keywords
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