Key result
Local football team home losses linked to ~28% higher MI and stroke mortality in men.
Why the study?
This study sought to determine whether football results are associated with mortality from circulatory disease.
Are results of local professional football matches associated with population mortality from acute myocardial infarction and stroke in residents of northern England?
Cohort
Yes
Are results of local professional football matches associated with population mortality from acute myocardial infarction and stroke in residents of northern England?
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Emotional stress from a local professional football team losing a home match is associated with a significant acute increase in fatal myocardial infarction and stroke among men.
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether football results are associated with mortality from circulatory disease. DESIGN: Retrospective study, comparing mortality on days of football matches between 18 August 1994 and 28 December 1999 with the results of the football matches. SETTING: Newcastle and North Tyneside, Sunderland, Tees, and Leeds Health Authority areas of England. SUBJECTS: All persons resident in Newcastle and North Tyneside, Sunderland, Tees, and Leeds Health Authority areas of England. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mortality attributable to acute myocardial infarction and stroke. RESULTS: On days when the local professional football team lost at home, mortality attributable to acute myocardial infarction and stroke increased significantly in men (relative risk 1.28, 95% confidence intervals 1.11 to 1.47). No increase was observed in women. CONCLUSIONS: Results achieved by the local professional football team are associated systematically with circulatory disease death rates over a five year period in men, but not women.
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W. Kirkup (2003) conducted a cohort in Circulatory disease mortality (acute myocardial infarction and stroke). Local professional football team losing at home vs. Days without a home loss by the local professional football team was evaluated on Mortality attributable to acute myocardial infarction and stroke (RR 1.28, 95% CI 1.11-1.47). Home losses by the local professional football team were associated with increased mortality from acute MI and stroke in men (RR 1.28, 95% CI 1.11-1.47), with no increase in women.
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