Word: ventricular
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Each year about 400,000 people in the U.S. die of sudden cardiac death. Kirby said most of these deaths are suspected of being caused by ventricular fibrillation, the most fatal form of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia...
...pigs were chosen because their hearts "are similar to those of humans," Kirby said. Models of the pigs' physiological response to stress have shown that the animals under stress have higher levels of norepinephrine than their counterparts in control groups. The pigs subjected to stress even develop ventricular fibrillation...