{"id":37735,"date":"2025-12-17T23:34:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/heart-attacks-increased-after-los-angeles-wildfires-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:34:24","slug":"heart-attacks-increased-after-los-angeles-wildfires-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/heart-attacks-increased-after-los-angeles-wildfires-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart attacks increased after Los Angeles wildfires, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Cedars-Sinai say rates of heart attack and respiratory illness \u2018matched worst years of Covid\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the first 90 days after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires that destroyed entire Los Angeles neighborhoods, there was a 46% increase in ER visits for heart attack symptoms at LA\u2019s Cedars-Sinai hospital, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacc.org\/doi\/10.1016\/j.jacc.2025.10.079\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newly released study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRates of heart attacks in January 2025 actually surpassed heart attack rates during all the prior Januaries, even during the Covid years,\u201d Dr Susan Cheng, director of public health research at Cedars-Sinai and the study\u2019s senior author, told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/17\/los-angeles-wildfires-heart-attacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Cedars-Sinai say rates of heart attack and respiratory illness \u2018matched worst years of Covid\u2019 In the first 90 days after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires that destroyed entire Los Angeles neighborhoods, there was a 46% increase in ER visits for heart attack symptoms at LA\u2019s Cedars-Sinai hospital, according to a newly released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:46:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}