Football is not a matter of life and death

November 17, 2012 2 Comments

I attended a lecture this week on research between stress and heart attacks, where this chart (from a New England Journal of Medicine paper) was displayed, showing incidences of heart attacks in the German population over the period of the 2006 Football World Cup, along with the data for previous years for comparison:

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2 Responses to Football is not a matter of life and death

  1. interested reader says:
    February 5, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    Well one conclusion is that nobody cares much about 3rd place play-offs

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