Word: electrocardiograms
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...Burkley was his physician, Johnson suffered no angina, the pain that results when the heart muscle protests that it is not getting enough blood. Indeed, Burkley recalls: "If you hadn't known of his previous attack, you would have had a hard time finding anything in his electrocardiogram to indicate...
...process works like a luxurious assembly line. A technician takes blood and sends it to the adjacent laboratory for both blood-cell and chemistry readings. The results, along with those of urinalysis, are fed into the computer, which is programmed to rerun any tests that show questionable results. The electrocardiogram, usually elaborate, is also checked by the computer and can be double-checked if any abnormality appears...
...unique combination of physical education and physiology. Prospective participants must get clearance from their own physicians as well as from Zohman. Before giving her approval, she puts an applicant through "stress testing"-exercising while hooked up to an electrocardiograph. "It simply isn't enough to run an electrocardiogram on a heart at rest," says she. "We have to road-test it to see how well it performs under a work load." In this examination the patient pedals a bicycle-like device against increasing resistance. Meanwhile, his oxygen consumption is being measured, and the electrocardiograph is tracing heart reaction...
...Further investigation confirmed Lange's suspicions. Of eight women employees of the plant who had suffered from "Monday morning angina," two had prolonged periods of coronary insufficiency, and three had had heart attacks. One of the three died suddenly on a Monday morning, despite the fact that an electrocardiogram taken only a few days earlier had shown her heart to be normal...
...taken from Spiro Agnew. Ironically, one of the nation's most effective black leaders has now made the same criticism. In the more incendiary days of black militance, says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket, the nation's press was like an electrocardiogram, recording every spasm. Recently Jackson fought unsuccessfully through the courts to win a place on the ballot in a mayoral election against Chicago's Richard Daley. Currently Operation Breadbasket and other black organizations are laboring all over the U.S. to give black Americans an increased measure of economic control...