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Heart attacks, which are usually associated with increasing years, are now taking their toll among the younger people of the nation.
More Americans between the ages of 30 and 40 suffer heart attacks, today than ever before, warned Dr. William A. Sodeman of Columbus, Mo.
And mostly it is due to the fact that they eat too many rich foods, added Dr. Sodeman, one of the featured speakers at the 18th annual meeting of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly, which opened Monday at the Municipal Auditorium.
4'Heart attacks in the 30-to-40 age group are far more common in the United States," said the physician, who is professor of medicine and chairman of the I department of medicine at the University of Missouri medical school.
Prosperity Blamed "During the war, when Scandinavians were forced to live on a reduced fat diet, the number of deaths from heart disease showed a marked reduction," pointed out Dr. Sodeman. "It's the prosperity of the times which helps increase such attacks."
The physician said heart attacks in the 30-to-40 age bracket are due to atherosclerosis, which is a former of hardening of the arteries.
"The cause of the disease is not known, but we know a number of 'things which makes it worse as well as why it comes so early in life," added the visiting speaker." In the first place it is known that these attacks come in people whose bodies cannot handle excess fats. In India and South Africa, where the diet is low in fat, such attacks are less common.
"We in America eat too well. We eat too many rich gravies l and pies."
Dr. Sodeman, who was head of the department of tropical medicine at Tulane university medical school for approximately 20 years, said such attacks can be avoided by eating sensibly, by staying slim and by cutting down on rich, fatty foods. [photo] SPEAKERS AT FIRSTDAY sessions of New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly included (from left) Dr. Tinsley R. Harri-son, Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. H. Dabney Kerr, Iowa City, Iowa, and Dr. Donald H.%Stubbs, Washington, D. C. [photo] ATTENDING A MORNING SESSION of medical assembly were' (from left) Dr. William A. Sodeman, Columbia, Mo., a speaker; Dr. William Boyd," Toronto, Canada, who also addressed the assembly; Dr. Andrew V. Frederichsrmember of the executive committee of the assembly, and Dr. William H. Harris Jr., member of the program committee.
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