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Article: Shoveling the Snow: It Can Be Dangerous
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 19, 1995
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Did you see those photos of winter coming to Buffalo last week?
Washington may have escaped the brunt of the storm this time, but it
looks like time to train for snow-shoveling season.
Studies indicate that while shoveling snow is an intense aerobic
activity, it can be stressful enough to trigger heart attacks.
Shoveling can cause a leap in a person's heart rate, blood pressure
and oxygen demand, according to a report published last spring in the
Journal of the American Medical Association.
In the study, researchers had 10 healthy but sedentary men
averaging 32 years of age shovel a prepared plot of heavy, wet snow
in the parking lot of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.
"We had ...