…A team of sociologists at Cambridge University suggested that the stress of a system-wide banking crisis could lead to a 6.4-percent surge in heart attacks in high-income countries such as Britain and the United States.
In Britain, from 1,280 to 5,130 people could die if a significant number of banks suffered a meltdown and developing countries could also be hit hard. In India, heart attacks could increase by as much as 26 percent, they said.
The study, entitled “Can A Bank Crisis Break Your Heart?”, based its findings on comparisons of World Health Organisation and World Bank data on mortality rates and previous banking crises between 1960 and 2002…
No, really . . . that is evidently a serious academic study. Of more immediate danger to some early this morning, though, the BBC reports:
The biggest earthquake in the UK for nearly 25 years has shaken homes across large parts of England.
People in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Manchester, the Midlands and Norfolk felt the tremor just before 0100 GMT.
An elderly man suffered leg injuries when a chimney collapsed in Wombwell in South Yorkshire, emergency crews said…
It seems a study on heart attacks post-earthquakes might also be useful? Or fear of earthquakes, as leading to heart attacks? ITN:
…East Midlands Ambulance Service - which serves the Lincolnshire area - said they had received many emergency calls although nobody was injured.
A spokesman said: “Most of them were from elderly people who were quite frightened.”…
Incidentally, while we are on the subject: Mrs Obama was a sociology major?
Oh, socio-capitalist-patriarchal afterlife construct God. Well, knowing that was her major now explains loads about her essential world view. Especially according to at least three influential approaches.
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