Word: electrocardiogram
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...cliché. Vitamins, eggs and milk begin to look like foods to hold down on (though mothers' milk is still the ticket). Readings of the number of milligrams of cholesterol in the blood, which seem to have value in predicting heart attacks, are becoming as routine as the electrocardiogram, which can show that the heart has suffered a symptomatic attack. Already many an American knows his count, and rejoices or worries depending on whether it is nearer 180 (safe) or 250 (dangerous...
...that this relationship existed, he and Dr. Henry Taylor persuaded 286 Minneapolis-St. Paul businessmen, then aged 45 to 54, to submit to painstaking, yearly physical examinations. The idea: to see if the onset of ailments in general could be accurately forecast by physiological measurements, i.e., weight, blood pressure, electrocardiogram, cholesterol count. So far, among other diseases, 27 of the businessmen have suffered heart attacks, 16 of them fatal. The common element in 18 of the cases was high (240-360) cholesterol levels. Moreover, it was the only significant common element. The electrocardiograph, says Keys, "doesn't hurt anybody...
Sometimes the victim" may convince his doctor that his ailment is painfully real by having an attack in the doctor's office. Then an electrocardiogram taken during the course of his pain will register telltale changes in the electrical activity of the heart. The ailment is often progressive; eleven of Dr. Prinzmetal's patients eventually suffered major heart attacks. In all these cases, says Dr. Prinzmetal, the attacks struck the exact area of the heart in which the gripping pains of angina had earlier occurred...
Until last week, no case of an adult-type heart attack, with destruction of part of the heart-wall muscle, had been reported in anybody under the age of twelve. Now two Montreal doctors de scribe the case of a baby boy whose electrocardiogram, at the age of only five hours, gave evidence of severe heart-muscle destruction (technically, "myocardial infarction"). The boy died when 18 hours old, and the autopsy showed two areas of infarction, one of which was so massive as to involve half the heart's lower left chamber...
...Royal Victoria Hospital. In the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Mathew H. Gault and Robert Usher report that, despite a difficult breech delivery, he seemed normal and healthy and began breathing spontaneously. But by the time he was taken to the nursery, he was pale and limp. The electrocardiogram was taken by happenstance: the hospital was making a study of heart action in prematures, and this baby seemed to have been about a month premature. The startling ECG finding alerted the doctors to the possibility of serious illness. When the baby turned blue, they gave oxygen. But the heart...