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NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1985
Page 16
Disease risk higher for poor, study says
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Poor, black males in particular, suffer a much greater risk of fatal heart disease than more affluent people, a study revealed yesterday, and researchers suggested that health care budget cuts could be deadly to the underprivileged.
The study also found that black men in general are more likely to suffer heart disease than any other ethnic or socio/economic group and are more likely to die of stroke than white males.
A three-year study of Los Angeles County residents conducted for the American Heart Association revealed that poor men are 40 percent more likely to die of heart disease than "wealthy" men, with poor black males 53 percent more likely.
The study by UCLA researchers of 160,000 deaths by heart disease or stroke defined the poor as those with a median family income of $25,000 and the wealthy as those with a median income of $25,500 or more.
RALPH FERICHS, principal researcher, said he was surprised to discover that income made such a significant difference in the incidence of heart disease.
Frichs said it is unclear why such deaths were more likely for lower income people and blacks but speculated it may be because they were less educated about health care needs, such as prop diet.
"We've had Medi-Cal and Medicaid that provide additional health care for several years, but that's been cut by the current administration," he added. "We have the biggest access to health services is still a problem in the 1980s."
MICHAEL WONG, president of the group's Los Angeles chapter, said other statistics showing that more poor people die of heart attacks outside of hospitals "should raise questions in the minds of community leaders about the extent and the quality and the availability of emergency services in poorer communities."
"Conventional wisdom has it that in the U.S. population, rich, white males are most at risk of having a heart attack," Frerocks said. "We see from this report that in Los Angeles County, that's just not so."
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and Frereichs said his findings in the nation's second most populous county applied nationwide.
Schroeder might leave hospital, doctors say
By United Press International
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bill Schreeder, free of a troublesome fever but prevented by television crews from taking another wheelchair jaunt outdoors, may be discharged from the hospital next week, doctors say.
William DeVries, the surgeon who implanted both men's mechanical hearts in patients with diabetes, used plans to wheel Schroeder into the sunshine yesterday when
Murray Haydon, the only other person living on a permanent artificial heart, might be able to get out of bed today, said Allan Lansing, chief medical spokesman for the Humana Heart Institute.
Schroeder's spirits were lifted by his wheelchair ride Tuesday — the first time an artificial heart patient has left a hospital Lansing said yesterday that Schroeder was up and down in his apartment doctors had hoped to boost his morale even more with another venture venture
television crews staked out the parking lot of Humana Hospital Audubon trying to videotape Schroeder's next trip outside.
"DR. DEVRIES IS extremely upset with the way the situation is with the media right now." Humana spokesman Robert Irvine said. He also said arrangements were being made to correct the problem.
Schroeder's wife, Margaret, did not want her husband on television
while he still suffers the debilitating effects of a Dec. 13 stroke and $2\frac{1}{2}$ weeks of fever, Irvine said.
Schreeder, fitted with a set of new dentures to replace seven infected teeth removed before his surgery on Nov. 25, ate pizza yesterday and was able to speak more clearly. He has been unable to string more than a few words together in sentences since suffering the stroke.
Schroeder, 53, is a Roman Catholic and yesterday received a smear of ashes on his forehead from a priest to mark Ash Wednesday.
During his 15-minute trip outdoors Tuesday, Mrs. Schroeder pointed out to her husband the "halfway house" being prepared for them across the
may be able to move into the house next week.
LANSING SAID THE Schroeders
it will depend on his continued improvement and the family's feeling of comfort, he said. "I would have had a week, but we have no target date."
Haydon, 58, a retired auto assembly line worker from Louisville, continued his steady improvement and was able to sit up in bed again yesterday and dangle his legs over the side.
Lansing said Haydon was spending most of his time sleeping off the effects of anesthetic. His wife, Juanta, in the first interview with Haydon's family, said that it had been difficult to talk at length with her husband for that reason.
Attorney faces trial on charges 13 years old
By United Press International
Bingham, 42, is accused of conspiracy to smuggle a gun hidden in a tape recorder to prison revolutionary George Jackson on Aug. 21, 1971. A short time later, three guards and two inmate trustees were slain in the prison, and Jackson was shot down by guards as he ran across a yard toward the fence.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — A judge yesterday ordered Stephen Bingham, an attorney from a prominent Connecticut family, to be tried for murder and conspiracy as the result of a bloody outbreak 13 years ago at San Quentin prison.
Bingham vanished and was a fugitive until last summer.
"I don't mind going to trial because it gives me a chance to clear my name," he said after the judge's ruling.
He said his decision to return to face the charges had to do with his personal life. He said he had a family
and was living and working in the San Francisco area.
"I never smuggled a gun or anything else into San Quentin," he said when he turned himself in July.
The judge set bail at $300,000 and scheduled arraignment for March 6. Bingham has been free on bail since July.
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