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...recovered rapidly. Seven weeks after surgery, he was running up and down four flights of stairs, testing his legs on lengthy hikes. Dr. DeBakey's operation, which has the tongue-defying name of thrombo-endarterectomy, is performed in scores of U.S. hospitals. He estimates that its use has value in some 40% of stroke cases, either in preventing the first, as in Key's case, or the second...
While doctors are still not sure that smoking ever causes heart disease, they have seen a number of cases, with symptoms like angina pectoris, that probably resulted from smoking. The strongest cause & effect evidence is in thrombo-angiitis obliterans ("Buerger's disease," from which the late King George VI suffered). This "occurs most frequently among smokers and is severer among those persons who smoke excessively than among those who smoke little...
...canceled "over a period of some months." The official bulletins had been medically vague. But at week's end it was learned that the King suffers from a variation of Buerger's disease,* mostly affecting his right foot. Other more frightening names for it: presenile gangrene, thrombo-angiitis obliterans...
Significance of Drs. Wright and Moffat's research is that it supplies additional evidence that smoking increases the damage to the tissues of a person whose blood circulation is impaired. Diseases which smokers must guard against include angina pectoris, thrombo-angiitis obliterans. arteriosclerosis. But, cheerfully add the researchers, they have no whit of evidence that smoking causes such diseases...
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