HEART DISEASE IN KOREA
AUTOPSIES REVEAL HIGH INCIDENCE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) CHICAGO, July 17. Three military doctors reported today they had found some evidence of heart disease in more than threequarters of a number of supposedly healthy young soldiers killed in action in Korea.
The average age of the 300 soldiers examined in autopsies was 22.1 years. None had shown any previous evidence of heart disease.
The extent of their heart disease ranged from fibrous thickening of the heart artery to complete plugging of one of more branches of the coronary arterial tree.
The doctors said the thickening of the inner wall of the artery was regarded as a preliminary or early stage of hardening of the arteries. Actual plugging of the artery—a later and sometimes fatal manifestation—was caused by the formation of plaques or hard blood clots on the artery wall. The study was made by Major Williams Enos, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Holmes and Captain James Beyer, all with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington. They did not offer any opinion in their study whether the stress or strain of combat was a factor in the high percentage of heart cases found.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27094, 18 July 1953, Page 2
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