Hearts may swoon when stocks do, study suggests

Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 16:07 in Health & Medicine

(AP) -- Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks. Duke University researchers found a link between how a key stock index performed and how many heart attacks were treated at their North Carolina hospital shortly after the recession began in December 2007 through July 2009, when signs of recovery emerged.

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