Association of local professional football team losing at home with mortality from AMI and stroke
| Male | Female | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health authority area | Relative risk (95% CI)* | p Value† | Relative risk (95% CI)* | p Value† |
| *Relative risk of AMI/stroke on days when local professional football team lost at home compared with any other result, from Poisson regression adjusted for month of year and day of week. | ||||
| †Two tailed t test of relative risk equal to zero. | ||||
| Newcastle and North Tyneside | 1.19 (0.87 to 1.63) | 0.29 | 0.90 (0.66 to 1.25) | 0.54 |
| Sunderland | 1.63 (1.16 to 2.30) | <0.01 | 0.93 (0.61 to 1.42) | 0.74 |
| Tees | 1.18 (0.89 to 1.56) | 0.25 | 1.08 (0.81 to 1.45) | 0.59 |
| Leeds | 1.17 (0.91 to 1.51) | 0.21 | 1.11 (0.87 to 1.41) | 0.39 |
| Pooled areas | 1.28 (1.11 to 1.47) | <0.001 | 1.07 (0.93 to 1.24) | 0.34 |