Abstract
Several statistical studies on heart disease have been published recently. Those from the United States, England, Czechoslovakia, and Argentina are particularly extensive and interesting. They inquire into the real importance of the different causes of organic disease of the heart and are intended to help the physician make an etiologic diagnosis in each case and to learn something about the prevention of heart disease. In order to appreciate the importance of the many possible causes, it would be very helpful if all countries would contribute their own statistics. The significance of factors such as race, climate, kind of work, and living standards, in increasing or decreasing the effect of universal causes, would thus be made apparent. Mexico has not yet produced such a report, and this paper attempts to fill the gap by presenting the results of my personal experience. As will be seen, many of my data are similar to those from other countries, but some are entirely different, particularly with respect to diseases which affect the Indian race.
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