G.G. and R.G.

When one identical twin gets heart trouble, the other usually has it or soon gets it. But not so in the case of G.G. and R.G. Of these medically anonymous twins, G.G. is known to his friends as "SpeedUp George," R.G. is known as "Lead in the Pants." In the process of living up to his twin brother, who is huskier and a little smarter, G.G. has become a highly sociable live wire, a Mason, a Woodman. He has also achieved a blood pressure of 180 (normal blood pressure: around 140), and has had a ngina pectoris for the last twelve years. (The twins are 56.)

R.G. is slow and solid. Though he weighs 250 lb. (G.G. weighs only 175 lb.), there is nothing the matter with R.G.'s heart. His blood pressure is only 135. His health is excellent.

Drs. Meyer Friedman and Jacob Sergei Kasinin became interested in G.G.'s and R.G.'s flouting of the accepted rule, made tes after test to discover some organic difference in the twins. There was no difference. The doctors even tested the flow of blood to the kidneys, because a poor kidney blood supply is believed to lead to heart trouble. Both twins had a poor kidney blood supply. Mystified, the doctors conclude that 1) Lead in the Pants has something the matter with him that the doctors cannot find; 2) Speed-Up George (who now has a heart attack daily) hardened his arteries and exhausted his heart solely by his "tension and drive." This, if true, shows that bad psychological habits can bring on heart disease without any help from infection or inheritance.

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