Heart rate (cardiotachometer), ECG and beat-to-beat finger BP were measured simultaneously with sympathetic nerve traffic.
It was the flesh-creeping heart of "Traffic", a film about the descent into heroin hell of a pretty young middle-class girl, and it is the terror that keeps drug laws in place.
In their book, the authors correlate ignoring sleep with heart disease, traffic accidents, and "immeasurable mental and psychological disadvantages".
Of Rome, all he remembers (in his childish exhaustion) is the stone buildings stained as if hauled from the ocean, the heart-stopping traffic, his father lugging old-fashioned suitcases (including his mother's mysterious makeup kit) across the cobblestones, and the nighttime click-click-click of the yellow window shade as it flirted with the Roman wind.
Collins is in the heart of all traffic flow.
Hers may be an extreme case, but any medical emergency, like a heart attacks or traffic accident injuries, can derail a business trip, if not a career.
Scientists have found that, on the Monday after daylight saving starts, heart attacks and traffic accidents are more numerous, judges dole out harsher sentences, and employees are more likely to "cyberloaf" on the Internet.
Ruhm and Cawley [9] add that in accordance with these findings, mortality rates have proven pro-cyclical, driven by mortality that can be explained by life-style decisions, such as coronary heart disease and traffic accidents.
At the heart of this traffic miracle, this way of moving millions of people with little delay, is the humble but iconic Vespa scooter, its imitators and relations, all powered with small engines in the 150 cc category.
Subsequently, we used Cox proportional hazards regression models to assess the association between survival after acute heart failure and traffic in a continuous scale, controlling for other potential risk factors.
