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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: 0.218s | source
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ZFleck ◴[06 Jun 23 14:01 UTC] No.36212917[source]▶
I've read a bit into this subject before; Matthew Walker's book 'Why We Sleep'[0] discusses it at length.

A lot of it boils down to blood pressure. High blood pressure is a serious contributing factor to cardiovascular incidents (as well as a slew of other negative health risks), and getting a good night's sleep will help keep blood pressure down. This is also why the amount of heart attacks are up around 24% after daylight savings[1]; an hour less sleep means higher blood pressure means higher risk of heart attack (relative to any other 'normal' day).

I can definitely see how the same logic could apply to Mondays. Less sleep, more stress = higher blood pressure = higher risk of heart attacks.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18971502/

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1. bbarnett ◴[06 Jun 23 23:17 UTC] No.36220452[source]▶
This is also why the amount of heart attacks are up around 24% after daylight savings[1]; an hour less sleep means higher blood pressure

There is no proof of this as to why. Only that it happens. For example:

* the hour of lost sleep does not happen on Monday, but on Sunday morning

* people could sleep in on Monday, then get hyper stressed that they are late

* type A personalities could get mad at an office of sluggish people

* people could get upset at everyone complaining about DST again, my blood pressure went up at your post!