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Bo Wikland - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Death from Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease outside hospitals. A study of 2678 cases in Stockholm with particular reference to sudden deaths.
    Acta medica Scandinavica, 2009
    Co-Authors: Bo Wikland
    Abstract:

    During the years 1955, 1960, 1964, 1965, and 1966, 2678 deaths outside the hospitals in the Stockholm region due to Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease (ASHD) were certified by autopsy at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Of these, 1213 deaths were considered sudden. Owing to detailed police records and autopsy protocols, the place and activity at time of death as well as postmortem findings could be studied. In the males below the age of 70 death at work was found to occur less frequently than expected, as calculated from the estimated time spent there. Heavy physical exercise and mental stress together were found to precede no more than 25 per cent of the male sudden deaths, and only a minority of the female. Autopsy revealed a recent myocardial infarction in 34% of the males below the age of 50, and in about 20% of the older males. Even lower figures were recorded in the females. Possible causes of these apparently infrequent findings are discussed. In agreement with the observations of other authors, an overrepresentation of myocardial ruptures was found in the females. Previous symptoms suggestive of ASHD were considered absent in 37% of the male sudden deaths below the age of 50, and in about 20% of the older subjects of both sexes.

Bjørn Guldvog - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Infant mortality and mortality from Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
    Norsk Epidemiologi, 2009
    Co-Authors: Hans Th. Waaler, Bjørn Guldvog
    Abstract:

    Objective: Design: Setting: Main results: Conclusions: If living conditions in childhood as indicated by infant mortality in a cohort is a valid causative factor for later cardiovascular mortality in the same cohorts, almost 1/2 of the reduction in cardiovascular mortality from 1973-93 in Norway could be explained by this factor. For females up to 50% of the observed reduction in cardiovascular mortality from 1973 to 1993 might be due to the Forsdahl effect. For males the corresponding figure is about 40%. Norway and Norwegian counties. Longitudinal observational study on mortality rates. To estimate how much of the fall in mortality from Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease from 1973 to 1993 that may be explained by the improved infant mortality experienced by these cohorts (Forsdahl effect). ABSTRACT

Michael A. Trush - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Mortality among industrial workers exposed to phenol.
    Epidemiology, 1991
    Co-Authors: Mustafa Dosemeci, Jerry Chandler, Aaron Blair, Patricia A. Stewart, Michael A. Trush
    Abstract:

    : We conducted a follow-up study to evaluate mortality among 14,861 workers employed in five facilities producing or using phenol and formaldehyde. More than 360,000 person-years of follow-up accrued. Mortality rates from all causes of death combined were similar to those in the general U.S. population. We observed excesses of cancer of the esophagus, cancer of the kidney, and Hodgkin's Disease among workers exposed to phenol, but none of these excesses showed a dose-response relation with exposure to phenol. Excess lung cancer mortality (SMR = 1.2) showed no consistent pattern by any exposure index. Workers exposed to phenol had lower mortality ratios for cancer of the buccal cavity and pharynx, cancer of the stomach, cancer of the brain, Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease, emphysema, Disease of the digestive system, and cirrhosis of the liver. Of these, Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease, emphysema, and cirrhosis of the liver were inversely related to duration of phenol exposure and to cumulative phenol exposure levels. Although these inverse associations may be due to chance or uncontrolled confounders, the ability of phenol to interfere with the generation of oxidants in experimental systems suggests that the pattern may have biologic plausibility.

Herbert H. Marks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Postexercise Electrocardiogram in Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
    2017
    Co-Authors: George P. Robb, Herbert H. Marks
    Abstract:

    An evaluation of the electrocardiographic exercise test in the diagnosis and prognosis of latent Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease was made using improved methods of performance and interpretation. The evaluation was based on 2,224 male applicants for life insurance given the test. A long-term follow-up of these cases disclosed: Ischemic ST segment depression after exercise is pathognomonic of coronary insufficiency for all practical purposes. The amount of ischemic ST depression indicates the degree of the insufficiency and the prognosis. Ischemic response involving multiple leads has a worse prognosis than that involving one lead. In the vast majority of cases, a nonischemic response\p=m-\STjunction depression, negative response, or T-wave change\p=m-\excludes latent coronary insufficiency of significant degree. Preexercise T-wave abnormality due to coronary Disease is distinguished by an ischemic response. In this study, the postexercise electrocardiogram gave more reliable evidence of latent or silent coronary Disease than did the medical history. No adverse effect resulted from the test.

Hans Th. Waaler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Infant mortality and mortality from Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
    Norsk Epidemiologi, 2009
    Co-Authors: Hans Th. Waaler, Bjørn Guldvog
    Abstract:

    Objective: Design: Setting: Main results: Conclusions: If living conditions in childhood as indicated by infant mortality in a cohort is a valid causative factor for later cardiovascular mortality in the same cohorts, almost 1/2 of the reduction in cardiovascular mortality from 1973-93 in Norway could be explained by this factor. For females up to 50% of the observed reduction in cardiovascular mortality from 1973 to 1993 might be due to the Forsdahl effect. For males the corresponding figure is about 40%. Norway and Norwegian counties. Longitudinal observational study on mortality rates. To estimate how much of the fall in mortality from Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease from 1973 to 1993 that may be explained by the improved infant mortality experienced by these cohorts (Forsdahl effect). ABSTRACT