Many a young man rising fast in his profession is sinking fast physically. Doctors have long linked emotional stress with heart disease; but they have come to that conclusion after the fact: most of the patients they examined were already diseased. At last week's meeting in Atlantic City of the American Federation for Clinical Research, two doctors from New York Hospital-Cornell Medical CenterWilliam N. Christenson and Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr.reported that they had spent three years correlating stress and sickness in ostensibly healthy young men far from the usual age of heart attacks.
The Cornell team tried to assemble the most...
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