Word: electrocardiographic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room; low-priced ship-to-shore radios, direction finders and fathometers for small boats; citizen band radios at $99 a pair; transistorized electronic organs for the home, priced from $700 to $1.500; a miniature telemetering system between doctor and patient that will broadcast the patient's electrocardiograph, brain wave or other biological signals whenever the doctor tunes in at a few miles' range...
Coronary Warning? The basic model measures head-to-foot and foot-to-head thrusts. A second recording instrument can be added for the sideways thrusts of the blood stream. The recorder has a spare channel, so that if the patient has electrocardiograph leads hooked up the physician can read the ballistocardiogram along with an electrocardiogram...
...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 and looks impressive in a doctor's office," but it is a poor predictor of coronary disease...