Sex, cocaine, air pollution, anger, caffeine and alcohol among top causes of heart attacks - Even breathing is bad for your health: A new study shows air pollution triggers about 7% of heart attacks, while marijuana toking causes just 1%.
Booze and coffee accounted for 5% of heart attacks, researchers found. Cocaine, anger and sex also fueled the cardiac catastrophes.
Air pollution is a major cause of heart attacks, a new study finds
Researchers looked at 36 studies on environmental triggers for heart disease and determined that air pollution dramatically boosted a person's risk of heart attack.
Those snorting cocaine were 23 times more likely to have a heart attack but, because a small percentage of the population uses the drug, it accounted for a small number of heart attacks.
"Of the triggers for heart attacks studied, cocaine is the most likely to trigger an event in an individual," the authors wrote in the study published yesterday in the medical journal Lancet.
"Another case is now made for cleaner air," said Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital who likened the risk of air pollution to the harm of secondhand smoke.
Evidence shows that banning smoking in public places reduces heart attack rates by 17%, the authors said. Mayor Bloomberg this week signed a bill that makes it illegal to smoke at city beaches, parks and plazas like the one in Times Square. ( nydailynews.com )
Booze and coffee accounted for 5% of heart attacks, researchers found. Cocaine, anger and sex also fueled the cardiac catastrophes.
Air pollution is a major cause of heart attacks, a new study finds
Researchers looked at 36 studies on environmental triggers for heart disease and determined that air pollution dramatically boosted a person's risk of heart attack.
Those snorting cocaine were 23 times more likely to have a heart attack but, because a small percentage of the population uses the drug, it accounted for a small number of heart attacks.
"Of the triggers for heart attacks studied, cocaine is the most likely to trigger an event in an individual," the authors wrote in the study published yesterday in the medical journal Lancet.
"Another case is now made for cleaner air," said Len Horovitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital who likened the risk of air pollution to the harm of secondhand smoke.
Evidence shows that banning smoking in public places reduces heart attack rates by 17%, the authors said. Mayor Bloomberg this week signed a bill that makes it illegal to smoke at city beaches, parks and plazas like the one in Times Square. ( nydailynews.com )
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