Using health records of nearly 3 million US adults aged 18 years and older who were enrolled in Kaiser Permanente Southern California insurance plans, researchers calculated daily hospitalization rates of acute cardiovascular disease (CVD) from one month before to one month after the 2016 US presidential election; acute CVD rates were higher during the two days following the election, compared with the same two weekdays in the one week and two weeks prior to the election, suggesting that sociopolitical stress may increase the risk of acute CVD, according to the authors.
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Article #20-12096: "Sociopolitical stress and acute cardiovascular disease hospitalizations around the 2016 presidential election," by Matthew T. Mefford et al.
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