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Science 9 June 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5472, pp. 1732 - 1733
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5472.1732
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SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Stress: The Invisible Hand in Eastern Europe's Death Rates

Richard Stone

BUDAPEST--The end of communism opened up a life of economic uncertainty in the Eastern Bloc. And that, say some social scientists, may be exerting a deadly effect on residents, whose high expectations that their lives would improve were quickly dashed by the bumpy transition to a market economy. Disillusionment led to stress and depression, and depression was a harbinger of death.

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