Did you know that Mondays have the greatest risk of heart attacks?
Myocardial infarction, the technical term for a heart attack, is a life-threatening medical emergency in which your heart muscle starts to deteriorate due to inadequate blood supply. This often results from a blockage in the arteries that carry blood to your heart. A heart attack might result in lasting cardiac damage and perhaps death if a healthcare professional doesn’t rapidly restore blood flow. The most severe heart attacks are more likely to occur on Mondays, according to a recent research.
The worst heart attack occurred at the beginning of a work week, according to specialists from the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland who studied data from 10,528 patients. The week’s first day has the highest rates of STEMI heart attacks, with Monday seeing the highest rates. A major coronary artery fully blocks during a dangerous kind of heart attack known as ST-Segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
In the UK, STEMI causes more than 30,000 hospital admissions annually. To minimize cardiac damage, it needs immediate evaluation and treatment. Emergency angioplasty is often used to reopen the coronary artery that has been clogged.
We’ve discovered a high statistical association between the beginning of the work week and the incidence of STEMI, according to cardiologist Dr. Jack Laffan, who oversaw the study at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. Although this has been discussed previously, it is still curious. Although the mechanism is probably multifaceted, it is plausible to assume that there is a circadian component given what we know from earlier research.
According to Professor Sir Nilesh Samani, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation (BHF), “Someone is admitted to hospital due to a life-threatening heart attack every five minutes in the UK, therefore it’s crucial that research continues to shed light on how and why heart attacks happen.This research adds to the body of information about the timing of extremely severe heart attacks, but we still need to figure out why certain days of the week are more probable than others. By doing this, we may be able to improve medical knowledge of this fatal illness and thereby save more lives in the future.
