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Show A study by Dr. Henry I: Russek of the U. S. Public Health Service and Prof. Burtpn L. Zohman of the. State University of New York College of Medicine found emotional stress four and a half times more prevalent among coronary victims than in people with healthy hearts. Dr. Meyer Friedman and Ray H. Rosenman of San Francisco mades a study of two groups: Group A consisted the competitive, ambitious men, constantly fighting deadlines. Group B men were easygoing, with far less drive and they had one seventh as much heart disease as was found among the men of Group A! ' Telltale signs mark the potential coronary victim, Drs. Friedman and Rosenman foundHe gestures emphatically when he talks, particularly with clenched fist. He looks at his watch often. Talk to him and he will interrupt to finish your sentences for you. He speeds up whatever he has to do: one patient actually shaved with two electric razors, one for each cheek! A mild heart attack often is a blessing, forcing such people to slow down and enjoy life. Bill Leonard of CBS, who had a heart attack at 40, was known as a . tireless broadcaster. Now, he says, "I simply don't try as hard, as much or as often. I spend more time just doing things I like to do playing bridge, taking long walks, playing golf." Life is almost always sweeter for the man who has survived sur-vived a heart attack, Whitman writes: the tragedy is that he must risk death to learn how to enjoy life. . " - Stop Breaking Your Heart The ambitious, hard-driving man, always racing to finish a mountain of work, is literally breaking his own heart, says the August Reader's Digest. This is the conclusion reported by writer Howard Whitman, as the result of new medical studies into links between emotional stress "and heart attack. The ancients were not far wrong, he saysin, considering the heart the seat of emotion: words like "heartbroken," "heavy-hearted," and "heartache" contain more truth than poetry. |