Fourteen million Amerieans suffer from heart disease and another fourteen million are suspect (124). About half of the deaths each year in the United States and Canada are due to cardiovascular causes and of these 20% result from coronary artery disease (279). In Canada about 43,000 persons annually succumb to acute heart attacks (50). In the United States, 8oo,ooo persons sutfer from coronary occlusion and myocardial intarction each year and approximately 25% die during their first attack. The surviving 75% are relatively incapacitated and one third never return to gainf'ul employment. Many suffer from angina pectoris and such persons live an average of ten years after the onset of symptoms, with the statistical anticipation of dying from coronary heart disease or its complication (33, 140). [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.118317 |
| Date | January 1966 |
| Creators | Borromeo, Carlos P. |
| Contributors | Shragovitch, I. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Experimental Surgery.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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