Quote: (Originally Posted by
EBT)
Heart attack is the easy diagnosis, given that most life threatening events eventually result in that outcome. Personally Im bored of the stats, whats interests me more is the data and the analysis I can personally conduct upon that. Naturally its not 100% right, but it seems a huge improvement on the chinese whispers we had before
Anyway, this is boring bollox.... i need to fix about 200 problems with gear before a caving week. Its a sod when you've had a year off as a result of working abroad.
My dearest Zak
With the greatest of respect, whether or not most life threatening events do eventually result in a heart attack is not the point. The point is that the higher heart attack statistics for closed circuit indicate a correlation with closed circuit. If it is the case that WOB issues can indeed *potentiate* a heart attack then that is a different proposition altogether from the proposition that a heart attack would be the eventual outcome anyway after a specific physiological event.
PS - I sympathise with the gear issues. Working away from home in the week creates "Friday night fettling syndrome" where you drink beer on a Friday evening and curse all the gear faults then stay up late fixing them!
Regards
AnneMarie