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%) |