Word: lownes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People drop dead because of electrical derangement of the heartbeat," said Lown. Sudden death kills 400,000 Americans yearly. There are no precise warnings to alert the victim of an attack and the time between an attack and death is very short, often a matter of minutes...
...goal is to identify susceptible subjects," said Lown. His team is also developing drugs which would be used to regulate heartbeat and is studying the higher nervous activities involved with heartbeat rate...
According to Lown, several hundred Boston residents are already being monitored and about 2400 have undergone "stress" testing...
...Myasnikov Institute plans to begin heart monitoring and stress experimenting as soon as equipment and trained Russian workers arrive from Harvard, "probably by late summer or early autumn," said Lown...
Harvard expressed interest in Lown's work when it discovered that sudden death strikes as frequently in the Soviet Union as in the United States...