Spring ahead, fall down dead


BOSTON -The chance of a heart attack goes up during the first three weekdays after the springtime shift to Daylight Saving Time, possibly because of sleep deprivation, a Swedish study found.

But on the autumn Monday after clocks go back - like this coming Sunday - and people can get an extra hour of shut-eye, the heart-attack risk declines.


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