Deadly heart attacks are more common on a Monday

Alternate theory: most deadly heart attacks are reported on a Monday, because that's when the admin assistant tasked with doing the paperwork gets around to clearing out the backlog. And since most reports don't include the actual time of death, Monday 08:02 it will be...

Well, I certainly changed my mind now! Sorry, that was sarcasm, I know this isn't Reddit... Anyway: so I tried to track down the actual paper being presented (since the linked article, of course, does not cite that). No luck. Lots of clickbait re-peats and re-re-peats. But I guess you have the link and will gladly provide it?

Do you have any evidence for any of the claims here?

Here you go: https://heart.bmj.com/content/109/Suppl_3/A78.abstract

(I searched 'Laffan cardio monday' on Google Scholar, Laffan was quoted as lead author in OP.)

Your argument at least in its current form seems not to hold - there's higher incidence over the weekend too.

Do you honestly think people on dying on a Saturday and it's being logged as a Monday morning death because of the admin assistant? That's insane, and has no basis in reality.

It would be unusual that they use reporting date vs date of death. The date of death is pretty normally distributed [0]. So while the reporting date probably piles up on Mondays, that’s not very useful for studying.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/table14_99.pdf (in the US at least)

Thanks! This still seems to be just an abstract, though, and I was unable to find any details about the actual method of data collection. Been downvoted enough for today, though, so...

I think that and the figures might be 'it' since it was presented at the mentioned conference, i.e. either a poster (which wouldn't necessarily ever be published in that form) or an oral presentation (which I guess might just be discussion & slides around the abstract, without anything more than that being written up? Or perhaps to follow - it is dated as 5-7th, i.e. ongoing at time of writing.)