The Super Bowl is now less than a week away and both the Steelers and Packers have arrived in the Dallas area to begin preparations For Sunday’s game at Cowboy’s Stadium, where today it’s media day.
The Super Bowl is famous for being full of heart stopping moments, but now one doctor says all that excitement could be deadly.
Cardiologist Robert Kloner says heart attack deaths climb significantly in a city immediately after their home team loses the Super Bowl. The California doctor collected death certificate data in Los Angeles for the two weeks following L.A.'s loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1980 Super Bowl.
He compared that data to the two-week period after the L.A. Raiders won the Super Bowl four years later and also to years in which an L.A. team did not play in the Super Bowl. He found that the rate of heart disease-related deaths in L.A. climbed 15-percent for men and 27-percent for women during the two-week period after the Rams lost the Super Bowl. His study is published in "Clinical Cardiology."
