TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1977//
TI  - Epidemic faintness and syncope in a school marching band
JO  - JAMA journal of the American Medical Association
A1  - Levine, R. J.
SP  - 2373
EP  - 2376
VL  - 238
IS  - 22
N2  - On Sept 21, 1973, during and following an American football game at which they had participated, 57 members of an Alabama high school marching band (and one accompanying adult) experienced an illness characterized by headache, nausea, weakness, or dizziness. Six girls fainted. Thirty-six students were treated at a hospital emergency room. Those who had played wind instruments and had worn heavier uniforms including an impermeable plastic jacket overlay were affected earlier and more frequently than the others. Several organic causes were examined in an epidemiologic investigation and considered unlikely to explain the epidemic. Female preponderance, a bimodal epidemic curve, hyperventilation, relapses, and clinical features characterized by subjective complaints in the absence of physical findings suggested a syncopal reaction to heat exacerbated and propagated by mass hysteria.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0098-7484
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -