The Deadly Downside of Marathons (Read 181 times)

My title is simply copied from this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/the-deadly-downside-of-marathons/522819/

I thought it was just another article on heart attacks while running, but it's not. Short take away -- call an ambulance if you have chest pains on marathon day

Excerpt:

"A study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that the death rate from heart attacks rises 15 percent on the day of marathons, largely because of delays caused by road closures.

The authors, led by Harvard Medical School’s Anupam Jena, analyzed the death rate for Medicare patients hospitalized for cardiac arrest and heart attacks on marathon days in 11 cities, compared to non-marathon days. For example, they looked at the Monday of the Boston marathon, compared with the death rate for the five previous and five following Mondays. Then, they compared it to the death rate in a nearby city that wasn’t affected by marathon-related road closures."

Why not link to the NeJM article? Why not use the title the scientists used?

Duh, "Delays in Emergency Care and Mortality during Major U.S. Marathons" isn't nearly as frightening and dramatic as "The Deadly Downside of Marathons."