Word: fatales
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...cystic fybrosis, the most common lethal inherited disease among white Americans. And, although they have not yet determined the accuracy rate, a team of Med School physicians in November discovered a method of sickle-cell anemia treatment that may be a major, if first, step in curing the often-fatal disease, which afflicts 30,000 to 60,000 Black Americans a year...
...greatest threat of arrhythmias is that the first episode can be fatal. In emergencies the heart can be electrically shocked to restore a healthy beat. But many people do not get help in time and are not resuscitated. One device that doctors now use to diagnose a patient's irregular rhythms is the 24-hour EKG recording. A person wears a tape recorder-size monitor that has electrodes leading from it to his chest as he pursues his normal daily routine. The machine automatically records his heart's rhythm over the day, during which time he keeps...
...ranking coronary culprit. It speeds up the heart rate, raises blood pressure and constricts blood vessels. Smokers in the U.S. are twice as likely as non-smokers to have heart attacks. And while tobacco users are most often warned about lung cancer, statistics show that their chances of developing fatal heart disease are three times as great. The American Heart Association estimates that more than 120,000 deaths from heart disease could be avoided each year in the U.S. if people gave up cigarettes...
Sands' fatal hunger strike now appears to be only the prelude to a sustained movement by other Maze prisoners. Three I.R.A. members joined Sands in the three weeks after he had begun to fast on March 1, and one, Francis Hughes, 25, was reported to be sinking quickly. After Sands' death, other I.R.A. prisoners announced that they would take the place of any hunger striker who died. But the British had no intention of giving way, even if, as a spokesman at 10 Downing Street harshly put it, "they drop like flies...
...year-old party theorist has long been the Kremlin's chief "liquidator of deviationists," as one Western expert put it. He had already delivered a none too subtle admonition at the tenth East German Party Congress two weeks ago: "Any deviations from our socialist teachings result in fatal consequences." That was hardly an empty threat, since it came from a man who, according to Western intelligence reports, has been demanding armed intervention in Poland for months...