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Doctors have long known that the overall U.S. mortality rate annually spikes around Thanksgiving, and remains elevated through the winter. (According to the CDC, the nation’s death rate in December 2013 was about 5% higher than the death rate in November 2013.) Doctors have also chronicled a rise in heart attacks around the winter holidays. It’s not just weather-related, as Americans shovel snow or suffer poor health in the cold. Looking at death certificates in always-warm Los Angeles County, across the 1980s and 1990s, researchers saw that there were about 33% more deaths related to coronary disease in the winter than in the summer. That spike began, year after year, around Thanksgiving. Forbes... 11/26/2014
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:39:23 +0000

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