Advocate Christ Medical Center offers safety tips for snow removal.
Previously Published in 2011 The snow that’s falling on the Chicago region is the heavy, wet kind often described as “heart attack snow.” That’s because it takes more energy and exertion to get rid of than the light, fluffy stuff. “What people are really referring to are those have known or unknown heart disease when they stress their bodies shoveling snow,” Dr. Brian Sayger said, vice chairman of emergency room services for Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. “Basically, they’re doing a stress test on their heart,” Dr. Sayger said. “If someone has narrow arteries it can involve a lack of oxygen to the heart [possibly resulting] in a heart attack.” Dr. Sayger didn’t have exact statistics on heart attack snow-related incidents, but …
A local hospital offers safety tips for snow removal.
