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The Big Number: Snow shoveling results in about 11,500 injuries — including 100 fatalities
Data show those deaths are generally caused by heart attacks.
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Snow shovel-related injuries and medical emergencies treated in US EDs, 1990 to 2006
This is the first study to comprehensively examine snow shovel-related injuries and medical emergencies in the United States using a nationally representative sample. The …
Association between quantity and duration of snowfall and risk of myocardial infarction
In all, 128 073 individual hospital admissions and 68 155 deaths due to MI were included in the analyses. The likelihood of MI was increased the day after a snowfall amon …
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