Word: lownes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology, who headed the sudden death study, said yesterday his team identified "transient risk factors" that stem from emotional response to fear and stress...
...emotional reaction appears physiologically as "ventricular fibrillation" which Lown said is "disorganized and erratic contractions of the heart which leads rapidly to death...
...Lown said yesterday that he could not identify specific emotional factors that cause the reaction in otherwise healthy individuals...
...researchers, led by Dr. Bernard Lown, associate professor of Cardiology, have experimented on dogs to develop a model which permits the study of stress factors on the rhythm of the heart...
Funding for the project remains uncertain. Lown cited cuts in federal training grants as an immediate problem. The grants support working physicians. "I have several working fellows here," said Lown, "and beginning July 1, I will have no stipend for them...