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Deadly heart attacks are more common on a Monday

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239 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 06 Jun 23 13:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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PreInternet01 ◴[06 Jun 23 13:59 UTC] No.36212892[source]▶
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...
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1. prepend ◴[06 Jun 23 15:14 UTC] No.36214090[source]▶
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)