Christmas is one of the most magic moment during the year and New Year’s Eve is really exciting. Nevertheless, some studies reported in literature demonstrated a correlation between heart attack and winter holiday. It could sound strange because stressor elements that have an important role in heart failure should not be present during holiday.

Anyway, other stressor components can be listed during Christmas celebration such as forced relationship with relatives, financial efforts to purchase gifts, traveling expenses. In addition to these components, during holiday overindulgence in diet usually occurs: indeed, major intake of salt, fat and alcohol can contribute to cardiovascular problems. We must remember that the cold season itself determines an increase in cardiovascular diseases due to a natural increase of vascular resistance and probability to have thrombus formation and coronary spasm. Furthermore, a happy atmosphere could determine a delay in seeking medical attention that could resulted as fatal. In general, physicians try to instruct patients with high risk factors to recognize heart attack at the beginning in order to look for medical care as soon as possible. Relatives of patients must be informed about the increased likelihood to have cardiovascular problems during holiday.