The helter-skelter life persons lead today may contribute to the development of diseases that can cause a premature death, Dr. Floyd R, Skelton said Wednesday.
Dr. Skelton, associate professor of pathology at the Louisiana State university medical school, addressed a meeting of
the Young Men's Business Club in the Roosevelt hotel.
"There are those who claim that the stresses we live under today are no different—no better, orx worse— than those that people lived under 100 or 200 years ago," he said.
"I maintain that the tensions we live under, tensions of a national, international or personal
scale, are totally different and more intense.
"And these tensions probably contribute to disease processes that can lead to an early death. These diseases include hypertension, heart attacks and hardening of the arteries."
Dr. Skelton, who is also research .director of the Urban
Maes Research Foundation'and! Laboratory, explained that stress acts in a way that starts a chain of events in the body that can produce high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries.
At the meeting, tne club postponed debate on a proposal in favor of "the principle of home rule on the urban renewal issue" until the next meeting at 12:10 p. m. Wednesday in the! Roosevelt.
