Casualties of war: Wounded veterans more likely to die of coronary heart disease
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 05:10
in Health & Medicine
War-time stress may lead to an increased risk death by coronary heart disease in later life. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Health Services Research surveyed a cohort of 55 year old Finnish WW2 veterans in 1980, and then carried out a follow-up study 28 years later.