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Acute psychosocial stress and cardiovascular events
Ruth Stalnikowicz1, Avi Tsafrir
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Mount-Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
|September 7, 2002
Abstract:
Stressful life events can trigger acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death. Victims of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and other conditions of extreme stress should be evaluated for physical injuries as well as for cardiac disease.