Hurricane Katrina - How to Avoid a Heart Attack

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One New Orleans hospital saw a jump in heart attacks following Hurricane Katrina -- and three years later, the rate was still elevated, a new study finds.Researchers at Tulane University Hospital found that over the three years ...

The effects of a major natural disaster can linger and cause heart attacks and other health woes for years, according to a study released Sunday of New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina.Four years after the massive hurricane swept through the celebrated southern ...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans residents were found to have three times the rate of heart attacks four years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina than before the storm and levee break that flooded the city, according to a study presented ...

Doctors have found a relation between stock market fluctuations and heart attack frequency, a preliminary study by North Carolina's Duke University Medical Center has said.during the recent period of increased volatility in the stock market, we found that when stock market values ...

Doctors have found a relation between stock market fluctuations and heart attack frequency, a preliminary study by North Carolina's Duke University Medical Center said Saturday.during the recent period of increased volatility in the stock market, we found that when stock market values ...

New Orleans hospital notes 3-fold increase in heart attacks after KatrinaStress following Hurricane Katrina may still be causing heart attacks years after the storm slammed Louisiana, according to a new study.Doctors at Tulane University Hospital and Clinic found there was a threefold ...

Mental stress has long been suspected of playing an important role in heart disease, and now new research suggests that this might be true for some patients more than others.. "We believe the phenomenon of mental-stress-induced reductions in blood flow to the ...

Topic: Hurricane Katrina

Heart attack rates were up three years post-Katrina

Post-disaster health woes plague New Orleans: study

Post-Katrina heart attack rate three-times higher: study

Stock market dips 'linked to heart attack surge'

Stock market dips linked to heart attack surge: study

Docs: Katrina stress still causing heart attacks?

Mental Stress May Hurt the Heart

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