Watching football increases the risk of heart attacks

During the Football World Cup in 2014, there were more hospital admissions for heart attacks in Germany, as reported by scientists from the University of Mainz and the Department of Sports Medicine at the Heidelberg University Hospital.

Heart patients should be careful

However, the researchers did not discover a difference in the death rate. For the World Cup, however, they found that on the day of the final, the death rate among heart attack patients in the hospital was highest. The final thriller between Germany and Argentina was won by the German team after being extended 1-0. “Watching football can be touching the heart,” says cardiologist and pharmacologist Thomas Meinertz. This does not apply to every game, however, but to those that are particularly stressful for viewers.

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