Abstract
<h3>To the Editor.—</h3> The report on anatomical evidence of coronary disease in US combat casualties in Vietnam (<b>216</b>:1185, 1971) is inadequate in several aspects. A full report of the findings in such health-screened young Americans could be extremely valuable for our understanding of atherogenesis. There have been almost 50,000 United States deaths in Vietnam, but we are given the findings for 114. The description needs associated antemortem findings for such relevant measurements as relative weight, ethnic origin, family history, blood pressure, and serum cholesterol level—and these are all in the men's records. We need quantitative methods and not uninformative photographs with subjective gradations. Quantitative methods are available in a report by Young et al (<i>Amer J Cardiol</i><b>6</b>:288, 1960).
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