THURSDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Snow shoveling does enlarge the risk of heart attack, a unaccustomed study confirms.

While many people think to be true this, there has been little objective evidence, according to researchers at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. So they past dispute to look for proof.

They reviewed the records of 500 patients who went to Kingston General Hospital through heart problems over two winter seasons. Of those patients, 35 (7 percent) started experiencing affection symptoms while shoveling snow.

"That is a gigantic number," Dr. Adrian Baranchuk, a professor in Queen's School of Medicine and a cardiologist at Kingston General Hospital, related in a university news release.

"Seven percent of anything in drug is a significant proportion. Also, whether or not we take into account that we may have missed some patients who did not mention that they were shoveling snow on every side the time that the episode occurred, that calculate could easily double," he explained.

The researchers also identified three main factors that place people at high risk for core problems while shoveling snow: being male animal (31 patients); having a family recital of premature coronary artery disease (20 patients); and smoking (16 patients).

They moreover found that regularly taking four or other cardiac medications could lower the dare to undertake.

The study was recently published online in the diary Clinical Research in Cardiology.

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