[本期導(dǎo)讀] 假期不能光顧著大吃大喝, 健康的問題絕不能忽視. 本期節(jié)目選自"CNN American Morning", 是主持人T.J.Holmes和Kiran Chetry對CNN醫(yī)學(xué)通訊員Sanjay Gupta的采訪,來討論假期如何防止心臟病的突發(fā)以及心臟疾病的相關(guān)病癥,時間約3分半.

CHETRY: You know, for most people the holidays are a time of joy...?

HOLMES: It's supposed to be...

CHETRY: It's supposed to be, yes, but for others the crowd, the cooking, the stress, the baking, the shopping can actually be too much.

HOLMES: That is a lot. In fact, more people die of heart attacks on Christmas Day than any other day of the year.

Sanjay Gupta, this is scary. I don't even want to get to, ah, get to Christmas Day. So what is -- is it simply just the stress?

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, I think it's a large component of it and I don't want to be the Grim Reaper here either. But you're absolutely right, it's Christmas Day and it's the day after Christmas and New Year's Day are the three biggest days of the year as far as people dying from cardiac disease.

So yeah, there's a lot of factors you might imagine; some obvious, some not so obvious. What is that people tend to blow things off quote-unquote, "around the holidays". So if they've been having some problems, some chest pain or whatever, they may be having they may be less likely to see the doctor. That seems to a reason.

Another reason also is that hospitals do seem to be less staffed during that time so (it's) harder to get in to see somebody.

But some of the big reasons are ones that you've might expect are the stress you mentioned, stress does cause inflammation in the body. That can be a risk factor for this. But also the long list of things, travel, cold weather, the types of food that people are more likely to eat over the holidays.

Also your fireplaces, T.J. and Kiran this may be a little less obvious, but it could release a lot of carbon monoxide into the air, especially if it's not vented properly. For most people not a problem but if you do have some underlying heart disease or underlying lung disease that can be a bigger problem.

In isolation, these things may not be that big of a deal. In combination which happens over the holidays these is (are) probably parts of the reason as to why you have so many cardiac deaths.

HOLMES: Wow.

CHETRY: That's amazing, you know, you do bring up a good point, you know that, that of course, the hospitals are staffed less, your doctors are usually closed and sometimes you're like, I'm just gonna have to wait until after the holidays no one is around. But is there anything else you can do to lessen your risk?

GUPTA: Yes, I think there are and that's part of the good news here, I think people (are) watching right now, we do a segment like this every year and I always get these e-mails afterwards because people are reminded of somebody's relatively simple tips; staying alert to your symptoms. That's what that really means, so if you do have symptoms to remember them. Even during the holidays, if you're traveling to visit kids or other relatives, taking your medications with you, don't forget that stuff.

Minimizing alcohol consumption, not always easy to do; but again, if you're at risk it's something to keep in mind. And keep your family informed as well.

Let me just spend one quick minute, one quick second telling (and) reminding people what the symptoms can be of someone who's having a cardiac problem or having a heart attack even that's coming on. Chest pain is one that a lot of people know; also pain that can extend into the left arm or neck, light headedness, shortness of breath and excessive sweating. But T.J. and Kiran, you know, we talked about this all the time, heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in this country. Women as well, so they can have these types of symptoms, or they can have something that's totally different and they just feel funny. They could have back pain; they could have nausea, something that's just odd.

If you're at risk definitely get these things checked out, don't blow it off, even if it's the holiday season.

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