As if you needed another reason to bemoan Mondays, new research from Ireland suggests a correlation between fatal heart attacks and the first day of the workweek.
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Dr. Yu-Ming Ni, a cardiologist at Memorial Care Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, explained to KNX that these findings highlight the stress many individuals experience in anticipation of the upcoming workweek.
According to Dr. Ni, "We know that stress can correlate with challenges destabilizing plaque in the arteries of the heart - plaque leads to heart issues. So, if it becomes unstable, you get a heart attack."
Dr. Ni also said previous research examining instances of sudden death has discovered a higher frequency of casualties occurring on Mondays.
In Dr. Ni's view, this phenomenon seems relatively universal. Applicable not only in America and Ireland but likely common in populations where a conventional five-day workweek is the norm.
Could a four-day workweek save lives? Dr. Ni suggests that removing Monday from the workweek rotation might shift the peak day for heart attacks to Tuesday while potentially result in an overall decrease in the total number of heart attacks, but says it is "something worth investigating further."
Though Dr. Ni concedes there are some things you can't control, such as the day of the week, for the sake of your heart, it is essential to find ways of reducing stress.
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