Cancer Epidemiology Unit, CeRMS and CPO-Piemonte, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Int J Epidemiol. 2010 Aug;39(4):1006-13. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyq007. Epub 2010 Mar 7.
The role of trigger factors in acute cardiovascular events has been much studied in the past few years. A recent study analysed changes in the rates of cardiac emergencies in Bavaria (Germany) during the last Football World Cup. The authors reported a 2.7-fold increase in the incidence of cardiac emergencies in the 12 h before and after football matches involving the German team, which sparked the debate on the necessity of the introduction of ad hoc cardiovascular preventive measures.
We studied 25,159 hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among the Italian population during three international football competitions: the World Cup 2002, the European Championship 2004 and the World Cup 2006. Poisson regression was used to estimate the relative risk of hospital admission for AMI on the days when football matches involving the Italian team were disputed, compared with the other days of the three competitions. Furthermore, we reviewed the available published studies regarding the association between football matches and the risk of cardiovascular events.
We did not find an increase in the rates of admission for AMI on the days of football matches involving Italy in either the single competitions or the three competitions combined (relative risk 1.01; 95% confidence interval 0.98-1.05). We identified 10 studies published on this topic. With the exception of the recently published German study and two small Swiss studies, all relative risk estimates were between 0.7 and 1.3.
The cardiovascular effects of watching football matches are likely to be, if anything, very small.
在过去的几年中，触发因素在急性心血管事件中的作用已经得到了广泛的研究。最近的一项研究分析了德国巴伐利亚（德国）在最近一次世界杯期间心脏急救事件发生率的变化。作者报告称，在德国队参加的足球比赛前后 12 小时内，心脏急救事件的发生率增加了 2.7 倍，这引发了关于是否有必要引入专门心血管预防措施的辩论。
我们研究了意大利人口在三次国际足球比赛期间（2002 年世界杯、2004 年欧洲杯和 2006 年世界杯）因急性心肌梗死（AMI）住院的 25159 例病例。我们使用泊松回归来估计在意大利队参赛的比赛日与比赛的其他日子相比，因 AMI 住院的相对风险。此外，我们还回顾了有关足球比赛与心血管事件风险之间关联的已发表研究。
我们没有发现意大利队参赛的比赛日因 AMI 住院的比率在单项比赛或三项比赛的总和中增加（相对风险 1.01；95%置信区间 0.98-1.05）。我们确定了 10 项关于这个主题的研究。除了最近发表的德国研究和两项瑞士的小研究外，所有相对风险估计值都在 0.7 到 1.3 之间。
观看足球比赛对心血管的影响可能很小。
