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Division of Clinical Physiology, Department of Medicine, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, cincinnati, Ohio; *Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, and the Hitchcock Clinic, Hanover, New Hampshire †Army Medical Service, Graduate School, Neuropsychiatry Division, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington 12, D.C. Received July 20, 1951
Chambers et al. (1953) studied this question. Emotional stress acts as a precipitating factor in the onset of congestive heart failure.