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The Deadliest Days of the Year

  • December 14, 2004

Hard to imagine the holiday season encompasses the deadliest days of the year healthwise for Americans. In fact, more Americans die from heart attacks and other natural causes on Christmas (more than 12 percent above the norm), the day after and on New Year's Day than on any other days of the year, according to researchers. Death by the numbers over the last two weeks of the year as documented by researchers over a 26-year period (not including suicides, murders, accidents or...