Cardiac arrests peaked after record Japanese earthquake

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Cardiac arrests peaked after record Japanese earthquake

By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Japan's 2011 Fukushima earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded in that country, generated a killer tsunami, a nuclear power plant disaster and aftershocks of another sort - a 70 percent rise in cardiac arrests, particularly among people age 75 and older, according to a new study. Those heart-related repercussions echoed through the population for more than a month, researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Tetsuhisa Kitamura of Osaka University and his colleagues focused on the three hardest-hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, where 15,814 people died, 2,664 were left missing and 448,922 ended up as refugees. Kitamura and coauthor Dr. Taku Iwami of Kyoto University Health Service said in a joint email to Reuters Health that, based on past experience, the increase was not surprising.

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