'Heart in the mouth' moments during a big football match may literally put fans' lives at risk, research shows.
Researchers studied the effects on German fans of watching their home team compete in the 2006 World Cup finals.
For men the risk of having a heart attack or another cardiovascular problem was three times higher on days when the German team was in action.
Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians University found that female fans had an 82% increased risk.
The researchers found that cardiac emergencies usually occurred within two hours of the start of a match.
They looked at 4,279 medical reports from the seven days the German team played, the 24 days when matches involved teams from other countries, and 242 other days in 2003, 2005 and 2006.
Six of the seven games in which the German team participated were associated with an increase in the number of cardiac emergencies.
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