Hurricane Isaac brought extensive rainfall and storm surges
along the Gulf Coast, resulting in widespread flooding and power
outages in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. However, due to
newly released evidence linking the aftermath of Japan’s 2011
earthquake with an increase in the occurrence of cardiovascular
events, new GlobalData analysis has questioned what role this
latest disaster might play in the incidence of CV events in
areas affected by the storm and how far the harm caused by
Hurricane Isaac extends beyond the expected. The great Japanese
earthquake and consequent tsunami of March 11, 2011, which hit
the northeast coast of Japan with a magnitude of 9.0 on the
Richter scale, was one of the largest ocean-trench earthquakes
ever recorded in Japan. In addition to claiming the lives of
almost 16,000 and destroying nearly 400, 000 homes, the disaster
resulted in a sharp increase in the number of CV events. This
trend has been reported before, following similar incidences in
Japan, China and the U.S. A