Psychologic and Social Precursors of Coronary Disease

"Ischaemic heart disease, or coronary heart disease, has reached enormous proportions, striking more and more at younger subjects. It will result in coming years in the greatest epidemic mankind has faced unless we are able to reverse the trend by concentrated research into its cause and prevention."1"We are again in the age of the great pandemics. Our plague is cardiovascular."2THESE words express the gravity of the current epidemic of coronary disease in many economically advanced countries. Felton and Cole estimate that all cardiovascular diseases accounted for 12 per cent of the time lost by . . .