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Football is bad for your health
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In the wee small hours of this morning I came across the classic piece of research that looked at the incidence of cardiovascular disease and the performance of your football team.
Results: On days when the local professional football team lost at home, mortality attributable to acute myocardial infarction and stroke increased significantly in men (relative risk 1.28, 95% confidence intervals 1.11 to 1.47). No increase was observed in women.
Conclusions: Results achieved by the local professional football team are associated systematically with circulatory disease death rates over a five year period in men, but not women.
I hope Everton keep on winning as I am approaching 46 and therefore classic heart attack material. The area the data was drawn from covers Leeds, Sunderland and Newcastle so perhaps we don?t need to worry too much.
So if we do go on bad run please cut out the Ale and the Pies and watch your missus checking the insurance policy. Apparently a similar study in Holland showed no affect of results on mortality (all too stoned to care I would imagine).
Right I?m off the gym, grab some skunk and pray for a long unbeaten run. If those Geordies carry on they way they are doing, I am going to Newcastle to see the merry widows of the Tyne.
Ed Fitzgerald, Posted 29/12/2007 at 10:34:12
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