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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:25 AM Nov 2012

Jobless 'face increased heart attack risk'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20391529


Work-related stress may have a role in heart disease

Being unemployed in your 50s and early 60s may raise heart-attack risk by a similar magnitude as smoking, findings suggest.

The study of more than 13,000 people in the US indicated heart-attack risk went up by a quarter in the first year after job loss and increased incrementally with further sackings or redundancies.

The same was not seen in people who gave up work voluntarily, Archives of Internal Medicine reports.

Experts suspect stress may be to blame.
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Jobless 'face increased heart attack risk' (Original Post) xchrom Nov 2012 OP
Of course, you need to factor in no work, no health care after cobra serve runs out, assuming graham4anything Nov 2012 #1
Having been out of work for nearly 11 months until April of this year,... MarianJack Nov 2012 #2
 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
1. Of course, you need to factor in no work, no health care after cobra serve runs out, assuming
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:31 AM
Nov 2012

wihtout work one can pay the premiums

that is why 2014 can't come quick enough

People with no jobs don't take care of themselves or see the doctor.

(this is one of the hidden messages in what Mike Bloomberg has done in NYC,
though the haters don't see it or ignore it if they do. He is providing a back door health care message to make people who have no health care not become sick and save money they don't have by not needing emergency treatment).

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