US researchers have found an increased number of cardiac deaths, particularly among women, after a city’s home team lost in the famed Super Bowl, the biggest American football game of the year.

The study, published Monday in the journal Clinical Cardiology, examined residents of Los Angeles where the home team lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1980 and won against the Washington Redskins in 1984.

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