CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS

3 August 1935

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 105 (5) , 337-341
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1935.02760310011003

Abstract

The prevalence and grave significance¹of heart disease are being emphasized. Nearly 2,000,000 people in this country are suffering from the disease, and deaths from this cause have taken first rank, 224 per hundred thousand of population having been reported for the year 1932. The mortality rate in heart disease is more than twice as high as that in cancer, its nearest rival. These figures should not arouse undue apprehension, for it has been pointed²out very clearly that they are the result of "beneficent" causes; namely, the longer life span and the lowered incidence of infectious diseases, tuberculosis, and the like. Nevertheless, even the more cheerful writers report that heart muscle disease is markedly on the increase, not only in old age but in the years between 25 and 44. Yet, I shall paint an optimistic picture, in spite of the fact that the most serious of

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NON-PAINFUL FEATURES OF CORONARY OCCLUSION*
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1934