In a postmortem study of 105 US soldiers killed in Vietnam, 45% had some evidence of atherosclerosis, though severe angiographic narrowing was absent.
Postmortem coronary angiography and dissection of hearts from 105 United States soldiers killed in Vietnam demonstrate that (1) 45% have some evidence of atherosclerosis; (2) 5% have gross evidence of severe coronary atherosclerosis; and (3) no patient had angiographic evidence of severe coronary narrowing, and in only one patient was any degree of stenosis observed.
J. J. McNamara (Mon,) studied this question.
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