Word: cardiovascular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medics' chief concern was how four days of weightlessness would affect the astronauts' cardiovascular systems. There were fears that a long period of physical inactivity, heightened by the absence of gravity, would make their hearts lazy and flabby, cause dizziness and fluttering of the heart when the men suddenly became active again. White, whose normal heartbeat is an unusually slow 50 per min., registered 96 while lying on the Wasp's examining table. When the table was tilted upright, his heartbeat spurted to almost 150 per min. Four days later it was still...
...like DeBakey, Ravdin and Gibbon seem to take on the proportions of demigods [May 28], especially to those of us who are now studying to take a crack at medicine. I recently had the privilege of hearing Dr. DeBakey speak on his work in cardiovascular surgery. The work that he described is nothing short of amazing. In times such as these, when so many advances are being made in surgery, it is difficult to remember that these men are not gods but mortals. This work is not a cure-all for all occlusive artery diseases, but one must admit that...
Heart disease is the top killer in the U.S. today, and strokes rank third, just behind cancer. But heart disease and strokes both develop from diseases of the arteries, and together they account for 75% of all U.S. deaths. The deadly statistics, contends Houston Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey, make cardiovascular (heart-artery) disease the most pressing problem of modern medicine...
Ford chose to have the operation done by famed Cardiovascular Surgeon Denton A. Cooley at Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. Last week, with Schulman assisting, Cooley made a 51-in. incision under Ford's left armpit into the chest. The surgeon then separated Ford's ribs, and collapsed a portion of lung to expose a chain of nerves running along the backbone like a string of far-apart beads. About four inches of the nerves were removed, and the incision closed. The entire operation took barely 90 minutes...
...body measurements and physical condition of all men who graduated from the College between 1880 and 1920, and between 1943 and 1949, will be studied to test the theory that stocky, muscular people are more susceptible to cardiovascular disease than persons of other body builds...