Mondays are usually days of boredom. The weekend is over and it’s time to get back to work. To capture this feeling of sadness, the ‘Blue Monday’which is celebrated every third Monday of January and which is qualified, without much scientific evidence, as the saddest day of the year.
In addition to being the day of return to ordinary life, Mondays are also ‘dangerous’since the deadly heart attacks are more likely to occur at the start of the work week than at any other time, according to a study by researchers at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and of the Royal College of Surgeons de Irlanda.
In his paper, presented at the British Cardiovascular Society meeting held in Manchester (United Kingdom), these doctors analyzed the data of 10,528 patients from all over the island of Ireland (7,112 in the Republic of Ireland, 3,416 in Northern Ireland) admitted to hospital between 2013 and 2018 with the most serious type of infarction, known as ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and occurs when a major coronary artery it is completely blocked.
STEMI requires urgent evaluation and treatment to minimize damage to the heart, and is usually performed by emergency angioplasty, a procedure to reopen a blocked coronary artery.
The researchers found a spike in STEMI heart attack rates at the beginning of the workweek, with higher rates on mondays. Higher-than-expected rates were also recorded on Sundays.