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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:1108-1109
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Reprints and Reflections

Commentary (1951): Coronary disease and modern stress

Robert Platt

Department of Medicine, The University of Manchester.

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Sir—Recovering from an acute respiratory infection has given me more leisure than usual to peruse your issue of Dec. 23, and with it Dr. Stewart’s article. This I much enjoyed, though more as an English essay than as a scientific paper. I suppose one can enjoy an essay and still question some of the premises and disagree with some of the conclusions of the essayist.

Dr. Stewart starts with a few dogmatic statements which are surely very controversial, and goes on to a cautious and fairly critical examination of the evidence as to whether ‘modern stress’ has caused an increase in coronary disease, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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