Table 1: Triggering events patients were exposed to prior to the onset of acute myocardial infarction.
Trigger | Patients N (%) |
Lockdown stress, loneliness and isolation | 52 (94.5%) |
Financial stress and hardship, volatile income, loss of job | 22 (40.0%) |
Cigarette smoking binge | 15 (27.3%) |
Anger | 12 (21.8%) |
Fear of contacting the disease | 10 (18.2%) |
Strenuous physical effort | 3 (5.5%) |
Inability to attend funeral of a loved person | 3 (5.5%) |
Heavy meals | 2 (3.6%) |
Fear of lack of medical care | 2 (3.6%) |
Hopelessness | 1 (1.8%) |