Tag: heart attacks

Aortic Stenosis: The latest heart attack scapegoat

Via Off-Guardian

The media’s found yet another reason you might have a heart attack

Kit Knightly

In only our second article of this new year, This Year in the New Normal, OffG predicted that a major news story of 2022 would involve predicting and explaining heart problems that hadn’t actually happened yet.

Not even a month later, we’ve already been proven right.

Urgent warning as 300,000 Brits living with stealth disease that could kill within 5 years

That’s a Sun headline from three days ago.

The article is about a recent study, which apparently found that aortic valve stenosis is likely far more prevalent in the community than previously thought.

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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS MAY BE KILLING YOU

Via Washington Examiner

Moving the clock ahead one hour this weekend for daylight saving time is saving energy for the conservation fight, but it’s also leading to more depression and heart attacks, making it hazardous to your health.

A magazine published by Duke Energy, one of the largest electric utilities in the country, included an article this week that took aim at the clock-changing law, which was updated just over a decade ago by a 2005 energy bill. It pointed out a number of adverse health effects that are a side effect of using 0.5 percent less energy per day as a result of gaining an hour of sunlight.

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