Ability of Men to Return to Work After Cardiac Infarction

Studies of correlation between progression of coronary artery disease, as assessed by coronary arteriography, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, ejection fraction, and employability.

“…The tendency observed in the present study parallels that seen in cases of patients who abandon work after an acute myocardial infarct (Malmcrona et al, 1962;Sharland, 1964;Shapiro et al, 1972;Vuopala, 1972). The type of work done previously by the patients seems to be a major determinant in deciding whether they will be able to return to it.…”

Return to work and work status following first myocardial infarction.

“…Of the whole cohort of survivors, over the short time period here studied, 6 per cent had returned to work at some point after the MI and had again left the working force by the time 18 months had elapsed from the original episode. The proportion of men who have returned and then left the labor force again within the year and a half following their first MI exceeds 10 per cent only for those men who were 55 or more at time of infarction.…”

Emigration for Health--A Warning

“…Low levels of factor VII and prothrombin associated with megaloblastic anaemia and thrombocytopenia in the last trimester have also been noted. 3 The possibility of a pure dietary deficiency of vitamin K may arise in association with steatorrhoeal and hypoprothrombinaemia which does not respond to vitamin K is found with severe liver disease. 2 The patient to be described here seems to have developed a dietary deficiency of vitamin K during the first trimester of pregnancy.…”