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Samuel Vaisrub, MD

JAMA. 1975;231(11):1167-1168.

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Like demons of old, risk factors for disease and death lurk everywhere. They lie concealed in cigarette packs; they crouch behind dinner tables; they hide in water faucets; they sit in ambush on idlers' rocking chairs. And they become doubly ominous when disguised as abnormal, borderline, or atypical laboratory data.

What a relief then to find that some risk factors have been recently reappraised and exonerated.

One such exculpation, previously commented on in an editorial in THE JOURNAL,¹ is that of coffee as a risk factor for myocardial infarction and sudden death. Dawber et al² and Klatsky et al³ have provided sufficient statistical evidence to clear the delectable potion from previous suspicion⁴ of complicity in bringing about these disastrous complications.

Another gratifying report assures us that, contrary to the experience with patients who had a previous myocardial infarction,⁵ premature ventricular beats occurring randomly in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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