PAIN AND PAIN EQUIVALENTS IN HEART DISEASE
Authors: Clough Turrill Burnett
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Article1 February 1937PAIN AND PAIN EQUIVALENTS IN HEART DISEASECLOUGH TURRILL BURNETT, M.D., F.A.C.P.CLOUGH TURRILL BURNETT, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-10-8-1156 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptApproximately 90 per cent of all non-traumatic sudden deaths are cardiovascular in origin, and 65 per cent are due to coronary artery disorders. A study of these cases of sudden death demonstrates a strikingly large number who gave a history of precordial or near-by pain preceding or during the fatal illness. The majority of these show pathological evidence of antecedent changes in the coronary vessels—namely sclerosis; but these changes were not the cause of death. 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