{"id":258,"date":"2008-03-11T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/spring-a-stroke-of-bad-luck-for-some\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T21:01:26","slug":"spring-a-stroke-of-bad-luck-for-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/spring-a-stroke-of-bad-luck-for-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring: A Stroke of Bad Luck For Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is on its way. It&#8217;s a time of renewal, blossoming trees, and apparently stroke. In this study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/healthNews\/idUSCOL66723220080306?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=healthNews\" title=\"Stroke Risk\" target=\"_blank\">stroke risk<\/a> was highest in March, April and May, regardless of people&#8217;s known risk factors. Now, I hate to be a cynic, but a lot of these types of studies sound so bogus. You can take any random collection of events, and they can by happenstance fall into <em>some<\/em> sort of pattern. Presto &#8211; you have a &#8220;trend.&#8221; The key to there being any validity to the study centers on the idea that blood pressure may vary with climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is on its way. It&#8217;s a time of renewal, blossoming trees, and apparently stroke. In this study, stroke risk was highest in March, April and May, regardless of people&#8217;s known risk factors. Now, I hate to be a cynic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/spring-a-stroke-of-bad-luck-for-some\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[31,7371,963],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-health-news","tag-heart-diseasse","tag-stroke"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}