Jay Mehta
October 19, 2017
The dangers of playing sports are well-documented, but what about the dangers of watching sports? A new study in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology has us believing that every hockey game you watch could be your last.
This fairly small study examined 20 Canadians with no history of heart disease who were instructed to fill out a questionnaire determining how passionate and invested they are in hockey and their favorite team. The researchers then hooked the participants to a pulse monitor and measured their heart rates throughout their favorite team’s game.