Springing Forward and Falling Back on Health: The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Acute Myocardial Infarction
Tanaka, Shinsuke：Hideto Koizumi
medRxiv （2022/07/08）
We examine the effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) over three distinct time frames: short, medium, and long run. By exploiting the unique circumstances in Indiana, our findings highlight substantial short-term costs of increased AMI admissions at the spring transition by 27.2%, wh…