Super Bowl Stress Can Raise Heart Deaths in Fans, Study Finds
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The stress that sports fans feel when their team loses a key game at home may, in some cases, trigger heart-related deaths, say researchers who studied data involving a pair of past Super Bowls.
The finding, reported in the journal Clinical Cardiology the week before the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers play in Super Bowl XLV, suggests that when the home team loses in the most important game of the season, it may spur higher heart-related events that lead to deaths.