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...Richard L. Verrier, a research associate, said yesterday the team is trying to determine the causes of "sudden death," a total heart failure which claims more than 400,000 American lives each year...
...breakthrough in the research, Verrier said, was the discovery of "echo beats," a pattern of heartbeats which signals imminent cardiac failure. This finding allowed the researchers to induce heart failure in dogs without killing them...
...Verrier said he is "cautions" in applying the experiment's results to humans. "If it is transferable," he said, "the conclusion is that psychological stress factors such as anxiety or fear affect the stability of human cardiac rhythm to a greater degree than we expected...
...previously thought that psychological factors might cause a heart attack, Verrier said. The new findings on dogs, he said, represent the first definite measurement of those effects of the nervous system on the heart...
...Verrier said that in future experiments the research team will try to find exactly how the neural mechanism works on the heart and what treatment is effective in preventing heart failure. He said it may be possible to develop drug or psychological therapy to strengthen the heart through the nervous system...