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Cricket Mania
(World Cup a thrill, not to kill)
The tension of major supporting events can trigger an epidemic of
heart attacks, researchers warned today. The rate of heart attacks increased by 25% in England when country's football team crashed out of 1998 World Cup, according to new findings.
The research findings are among a series of quickly & bizarre medical reports that appear, in tradition, in the
Christmas edition of British Medical Journal.
When England lost the match, Prof.Douglas Carroll of Birmingham University UK & Prof.Shah Ibrahim, of Bristol University
UK, said the increased rate of heart attack continued for 2 days following the match. They said,
" The excess admissions maybe attributable to spectators emotions during very tense endings ".
And now as World Cup is coming each & every one is involved in this, some people make the match as a matter of life &
death. Specially match between Pakistan & India is of significant importance so obviously people will involve in this match as
much as possible.
BUT
We should enjoy sports otherwise sports will not enjoy us.
Summaira Abbasi
(3rd year)
emed.
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