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Originally Posted by ken0042
I looked for the heart attack study. Found only one, that studied a single hospital. So this hospital that sees around 30 heart attack patients per day saw an increase of 25% over 4 DST starts. Then a decrease of 21% when DST ended.
One hospital, over only 4 years. Small sample size and between the two there was an increase of 4%- which is a margin of error.
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So it's only one hospital and I don't want to trivialize 4% but you could have days of 30+ degrees contribute to increased heart attacks or strokes as well as major snow storms contribute to more carnage at the hospital due to heart attacks shoveling snow. If you have 30 hart attacks on average that means on any given day you could have 36 or 26 so if DST makes for a day of 31 instead of 30 it just doesn't seem high or significant enough to warrant totally screwed up daylight hours.