It is just a game: lack of association between watching football matches and the risk of acute cardiovascular events | Zendy

Francesco BaroneAdesi | Zendy; Loredana Vizzini | Zendy; Franco Merletti | Zendy; Lorenzo Richiardi | Zendy

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It is just a game: lack of association between watching football matches and the risk of acute cardiovascular events

Author(s) -

Francesco BaroneAdesi,

Loredana Vizzini,

Franco Merletti,

Lorenzo Richiardi

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyq007

Subject(s) - football , medicine , poisson regression , myocardial infarction , relative risk , demography , population , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , championship , german , geography , environmental health , physics , archaeology , sociology , optics

The role of trigger factors in acute cardiovascular events has been much studied in the past few years. A recent study analysed changes in the rates of cardiac emergencies in Bavaria (Germany) during the last Football World Cup. The authors reported a 2.7-fold increase in the incidence of cardiac emergencies in the 12 h before and after football matches involving the German team, which sparked the debate on the necessity of the introduction of ad hoc cardiovascular preventive measures.

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