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Science 23 November 1973:
Vol. 182. no. 4114, pp. 834 - 836
DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4114.834
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Psychologic Stress and Threshold for Repetitive Ventricular Response

Bernard Lown 1, Richard Verrier 1, and Ramon Corbalan 1

1 Cardiovascular Laboratory, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

A psychologically stressful environment reduced the threshold of the dog's ventricle for repetitive response. Elicitation of such a response indicates the presence of electrical instability and a predisposition to ventricular fibrillation, the mechanism of sudden death.


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