Of these, 158 had consumed a self-described heavy meal within 26 hours beforehand, and 25 had eaten a big meal during a two-hour “hazard period” preceding the events.
The finding appeared to suggest that heavy meals could act as a trigger, much in the same way as extreme physical exertion or an outburst of anger might.
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The lead authors of the study, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, a cardiology fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, pointed out that there is a distinct difference between the risk factors that develop over a lifetime and those that act as a sudden trigger for a heart attack.
Both, however, are potentially dangerous, pointed out the researcher.
Source: Daily Express
