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Sunday marks daylight saving time, and we'll all have to move our clocks one hour forward, losing sleep while also increasing our chances for health concerns and car accidents.

A Swedish study from 2008 published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the number of deadly heart attacks jumped from 6 percent to 10 percent in the first three work days after the start if daylight saving time.

Another Australian study from 2008 published in the Sleep and Biological Rhythms journal said that men are more likely to commit suicide during the first few weeks of daylight saving time than they are during the rest of the year.

Several countries have also reported an increase in the number of traffic accidents on the Monday after the spring time change.

A 1996 study published in the New England Journal found an 8 percent spike in traffic accidents in Canada the Monday after the clocks move forward.

Researchers in the U.S. and Sweden have discovered similar findings upon analyzing traffic accident data after the time change.

Not only are health concerns and car crashes affected negatively by daylight saving, but also the economy.

A report in the American Economic Review in 2000 pegged the time change the reason behind traders producing large negative returns in the weeks following the shift in time.

Doctors suggest taking it easy this weekend and making sure you're well rested before the change occurs at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 14.

The idea behind daylight saving time is to save energy and lightbulb hours by allowing the sun to appear an hour later in the morning when most are asleep anyway.

As warmer weather is in the near future, daylight saving time benefits us by stretching daylight later into the evening.

Story by AccuWeather.com's Carly Porter.