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Cardiac deaths follow industrial disaster
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An industrial disaster increases fatal heart attacks in the immediate aftermath, a one off study in Tours, France, has confirmed. Cardiologists say that acute stress at the time and emotional fallout thereafter from, maybe, losing a home and other stressors are likely triggers.
In 2001 an explosion at a chemical plant storing ammonium nitrate in the town left 30 dead and 3000 injured from an earthquake of 3.4 on the Richter scale, which destroyed 27 000 homes. Cardiologists could tell whether the disaster provoked more cardiac deaths within a target area of 3 km radius over what would have been expected otherwise because their incidence had been regularly recorded here since 1985.
Standardised incidence ratios of observed to expected cardiac deaths three days after the explosion were about 3.5 times higher than a mean of two similar periods in 2000 before and after the actual date, and one in 2001
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