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THE Department of Health (DOH) on Monday warned the public about holiday heart syndrome which may be caused by too much stress, lack of rest, alcohol and eating salty foods.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa cautioned \u00a0Filipinos to avoid too much consumption of fatty, salty and sweet foods during the holidays. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Damihan ang pagkain ng gulay at prutas na dapat ay kalahati ng inyong Pinggang Pinoy. Humanap pa tayo ng oras na mag-ehersisyo,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Herbosa said that eating fruits and vegetables and having enough exercise are keys in avoiding holiday heart syndrome which could lead to arrhythmia or abnormal heart, a cause of stroke.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Over the weekend, the DOH conducted Ligtas Christmas Hospital Preparedness and Response Rounds to ensure hospitals are ready to attend to cases related to holiday heart syndrome such as stroke.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Philippine Heart Center (PHC) reported monitoring 60 stroke cases from July to November.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Dec. 1 to 20, the PHC has logged seven new cases of stroke.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Health Department said the number of stroke cases may rise after Christmas and New Year if Filipinos do not avoid too much alcohol and eating at parties.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It added that such a trend has been observed in 2023 when 38 cases of stroke were recorded in December. The figure increased to 42 cases in January 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DOH also recorded 110 cases of acute coronary heart syndrome in December 2023, which reached 115 in January 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) reported a continuous increase in stroke every December from 2020 to 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The EAMC said they had 188 stroke patients in December 2020, 226 in 2021, 247 in 2022 and 328 in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DOH also visited private hospitals. The St. Luke\u2019s Medical Center in Quezon City reported 295 stroke patients in 2022, and 415 stroke patients were recorded in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n St. Lukes Medical Center records showed it has logged 339 stroke discharges from January to November this year. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Department of Health (DOH) on Monday warned the public about holiday heart syndrome which may be caused by too much stress, lack of rest,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10839,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions\/10839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}