脑溢血和缺血性心脏病是因动脉硬化致病的代表性疾患。众所周知,在各先进国家的死亡原因中此类疾患占半数以上。以前,曾认为老化就是动脉硬化,但是当看到朝鲜战争中死亡的20岁左右美军士兵的多数有相当严重的动脉粥样硬化的报告时,震动了当时的医学界。1954年在华盛顿召开的第二次世界心脏病学会的座谈会上提出了这个问题,并决定对我校病理学教研室贮 Cerebral hemorrhage and ischemic heart disease are the most common causes of atherosclerosis. It is known to all that more than half of these diseases are among the causes of death in advanced countries. In the past, aging was thought to be arteriosclerosis, but the medical profession was shaken when it was seen that at the age of 20, the majority of U.S. soldiers who died in the Korean war had a very severe atherosclerosis. This problem was raised at the Second World Society of Cardiology meeting held in Washington DC in 1954 and decided to make a judgment on the pathology department of our school