A NOTE ON THE INCIDENCE OF RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE AMONG CRIMINAL PSYCHOPATHS
Abstract
Rheumatic heart lesions were present in 0.60 per cent of a group of 662 criminal psychopaths as compared to an incidence of 1.49 per cent in a roughly comparable control group of 18 and 19 year old selective service registrants. Rheumatic encephalopathy must be a very infrequent etiologic factor in the criminal types of psychopathic personality.
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