Characteristics of the Individual as Guideposts to the Prevention of Heart Disease

Article1 September 1957CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL AS GUIDEPOSTS TO THE PREVENTION OF HEART DISEASECAROLINE BEDELL THOMAS, F.A.C.P.CAROLINE BEDELL THOMAS, F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-47-3-389 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIt is a great honor to be asked to give the James D. Bruce Memorial Lecture in Preventive Medicine today. To be thus chosen is profoundly gratifying, and I should like to express my deepest appreciation to the Board of Regents of The American College of Physicians for this distinction, which I share with Dr. Alvin Coburn. It is worthy of note that this is the first Bruce Memorial Lectureship to be devoted to problems concerned with the prevention of heart disease. At the inception of the Bruce Lectures in 1948, the late Brigadier General James Stevens Simmons pointed out...Bibliography1. 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To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: CAROLINE BEDELL THOMAS, F.A.C.P.Affiliations: Baltimore, Maryland*Presented as one of the James D. Bruce Memorial Lectures on Preventive Medicine at the Thirty-eighth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Boston, Massachusetts, April 10, 1957.Support for the long-term study has come from the following sources: Research Grant 215, the United States Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency; funds made available for research by Abbott Laboratories, Eli Lilly Research Contract V1001M-2768, Veterans Administration; Research Grant H-1891, National Heart Institute; the Tobacco Industry Research Committee.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Caroline Bedell Thomas, M.D., Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 5, Maryland. 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