The confinement has significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations for heart attacks, reveals a study published in The Lancet. 21 hospitals compared the number of patients who came for a heart attack over the duration of the lockdown, but also over a few weeks after the deconfinement. Results, an average of 30% decrease is observed everywhere in France, even in areas where hospitals were not saturated.
Afraid to go to the hospital?
It is the first 4 weeks of confinement that mark the real fall in patients for this reason. That said, the trend is confirmed over the next 4 weeks. Before, researchers count 686, against only 481 after confinement.
But does that mean that people have stopped having heart problems? The researchers formulate various hypotheses which would explain this decrease. First, they believe that the virus has raised fears of going to the emergency room, which has become a highly contagious place!
Next, scientists point out that confinement has slowed down the pace of life of all French people. We have tended to do less physical effort, to be less exposed to the stressful hazards of daily life and to external risk factors such as pollution, which also fell significantly during confinement. The study concludes by recalling the impact of daily life on the health of French people.
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