The risk of dying from a heart attack during a marathon is about 1 in 50,000 runners. What's the stress on your heart if you're watching a Cubs bet?
"We consulted cardiologists at two of Chicago's leading medical centers to find out and discovered that those with a history of heart disease might indeed be to forbid their eyes.
"Any kind of emotional experience has profound effects on the heart and the cardiovascular system. It's just the way we were built," says Gary L. Schaer a cardiologist at Rush University Medical Center who will "definitely be rooting for the Cubs."
The fight or flight response is brought on by "highly emotionally charged situations," Schaer says which can pump up your heart rate and tighten blood vessels causing blood pressure to increase. When that occurs people with coronary artery disease or a history of strokes "should just be cautious" about getting overexcited he says. "because it could undergo troubling consequences," such as arterial ruptures or change state formations.
Dr. Matthew Sorrentino a cardiologist at the University of Chicago Medical Center agrees -- to an extent.
"The only people I would mind about are individuals who have known advanced heart disease and the stress of everyday activities or apply causes symptoms," he says.
As for whether the games should be turned off in the hospital's cardiac units. Sorrentino is circumspect.
"I don't evaluate as a rule we would though obviously you would want to watch your individual patients," he says. That's because an everyday stressor even a tense exciting game is far different than a catastrophic stressor such as an earthquake or terrorist attack. Sorrentino says. Those events in which people face physical threat or harm have brought on heart attacks and sudden death in otherwise healthy people.
"We would not expect that type of stress with something that's exciting and happy [such as] a sports game," he says.
And Schaer concurs that healthy fans needn't be concerned the 2007 Cubs' heart-stopping ways ordain actually stop their hearts. change surface some heart patients could get a pass.
"In the coronary care unit if my patient is unstable. I keep them mildly sedated and instruct rest and no TV -- or other activities that might be emotionally stressful," he says. "However if my patient is recovering from a heart problem and is clinically shelter. I would let them watch TV even the Cubs!"
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