The post-coronary patient

The Relationship of Myocardial Infarction to Depressive Illness

“…However, F orssman and L indegard [7] in a study of post-coronary patients have found short periodic depressions more frequently in the pre-infarct past of their patients than in their matched controls. A Medi cal News item in the Journal of the American Medical Association [11], probably referring to the work of P affenbarger and his co-workers [15], includes depression among those features which were found more often in the past of former university students who, now 30-65 years old, had co ronary disease.…”

The Aetiology of Coronary Heart Disease in Old Men

“…In a longitudinal study, Dawber, Moore, and Mann (1957) showed that excess weight corrected for height carried an extra liability to coronary heart disease but they assumed without justification, that such excess of weight was primarily due to obesity. Forssman and Lindegard (1958) found their subjects to be fatter but, although they measured physical strength, which did not differ between the groups, they did not assess muscularity somatometrically. These conclusions, taken in association with those shown in Table VI, indicate that at all ages the muscular man, who is perhaps a little overweight, is particularly liable to develop coronary heart disease.…”

Body Build and Serum Lipids in Male Patients Hospitalized for Peptic Ulcer or Myocardial Infarction

“…Forssman et al (6), in 1958, reported on 66 male postcoronary patients whose body build was determined on the basis of length and size of skeleton. They found that the patients with high cholesterol values also had large length and sturdiness factors of the skeleton.…”