Gobbledegook

'Pregnancy heart risk' says The Star(site under redevelopment); 'Mums in heart attack risk' as The Sun has it; 'Pregnant women 'four times as likely to have a heart attack' for The Daily Telegraph (note the quote marks for something that is being said for the first time. By The Daily Telegraph). The NHS's Behind The Headlines service has a better analysis of the science behind the study than I can offer, so go there for that.
What I can add is only this: the press release associated with the study states

Although acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is rare in women of child-bearing age, pregnancy can increase a woman's risk of heart attack 3- to 4-fold, according to a study published in the July 15, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The journal issue containing the study is still embargoed meaning I haven't been able to read the full text, so they may well use just that sentence, and report just that finding. What's interesting, though, is another study, from 2006, and published in Circulation whose abstract states:

Although acute myocardial infarction is a rare event in women of reproductive age, pregnancy increases the risk 3- to 4-fold.

Eerily similar, eh. As the Behind the Headlines piece explains, the current study wasn't comparative, so no relative risk increase can be inferred. They also report that the authors note that other studies have found a 3 to 4 fold increase in risk (that's our friends from 2006 then). So...the headlines, the story, the new findings et cet et cet, are all based on a line copied and pasted by a PR person from the abstract of a 2006 study and nothing to do with this one. I've heard rumours that Germany has invaded Poland - I wonder when the papers will pick up on it.

Tehehe

Newspapers, newspapers, newspapers...The Irish Independent, reporting on a new survey from the employment law firm, Peninsula, tell us that,

77% of males in the Irish workplace experience sexual harassment from women, with 84pc of them too afraid to complain to their employer

Yuk, granted, (freely).

But.

Neither the Irish nor the UK Peninsula websites publish either the methods or results of the survey, nor do they have an e-mail address to which one can address queries; consequently I'll have to wait til the morning to ring them and ask for both aforesaid. What interests me here is the Irish Independent and their cottoning on to the new fangled convention of linking to sources. Go. Go to their report on this story.

A survey from employment law firm Peninsula Ireland

Deadly, a link to the survey, or a link to Peninsula's website. Oh. No.

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Alan Price (head of Peninsula Ireland) gets the same treatment.

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For the love of monkeys, what, I ask you, What, is the (monkey loving) point of linking to a page that then links you back to the page you've just read? There's an old saw that old media is loth to direct readers to other sites in case they, eh...suddenly discover there are...other sites (Google, what is this goo ig gill? Noh, noh! Cannot..is no make sense there is more to internet machine than noopapers inside light box) but me myself, I'd shrugged it off as being no more than the theory of those conspiring to convince themselves that there are those out there conspiring to conspire. Parently not, though, (seems).

And why 'Ireland' and 'Alan Price' but not 'Peninsula', 'discrimination', 'employment law' or 'the'?

Update on sexual harassment study tomorrow; when I've spoken to a receptionist in Peninsula and been told I'll have the survey data by close of business and (using my supersonic hearsight) deduced from the scratching pen sound audible through the phone line that she's writing 'Daddy? Or chips?...Daddy or chips...Daddy or chips.....Chips', and given it up for a cause as lost as the data.