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Study: Disease-related deaths surged after 3/11 — Heart unable to pump enough blood around body
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The earthquake that spawned a tsunami and a nuclear crisis in Japan last year also spurred an increase in heart-related ailments and pneumonia, according to a study.
The weekly figures for heart failure, the inability of the muscle to pump enough blood around the body, and pneumonia jumped soon after the earthquake, according to Japanese researchers [...] The result was sustained for more than six weeks after the tsunami struck, compared with the previous three years, they said.
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When an aftershock of magnitude 7.0 hit on April 7, 2011, there was another jump in cases of stroke and cardiopulmonary arrest, the study found.
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While a short-term increase in cases of cardiovascular illnesses has been reported with previous earthquakes, the new study is the first to examine the longer-term effects on heart health, the researchers said. The data also provide the first evidence that the incidence of heart failure rose over a long period after the disaster, they said.
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[link to www.bloomberg.com]
[link to enenews.com]
Hiroaki Shimokawa, Lead Researcher for Study
“The occurrence of heart failure and pneumonia significantly increased, then gradually went down to the previous level, though pneumonia took almost three months to go down”
Cases of stroke, cardiopulmonary arrest and acute coronary syndrome, or symptoms of a blocked coronary artery such as a heart attack, also increased
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