Top Research Papers on Hypertension

From the Georgetown University Medical Division, District of Columbia General Hospital, Washington, D.C., and Jefferson Memorial Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the American College of Angiology.

To the Editor:— I have just read in the February 9 issue of the Journal the paper of Gubner, Silverstone and Ungerleider about the range of blood pressure in hypertension and found them a useful aid in the evaluation of hypertensive and prehypertensive states.

Recent research by the author has established the fallacy of the existing opinion that any persistently high blood pressure is the result of renal tissue disease, and recommends treating constant increases in blood pressure with theobromine and its various combinations, bearing in mind that theobromaine dilates the vessels of the heart, kidneys and brain.

This patient education book provides a comprehensive overview of high blood pressure, covering various aspects in a clear and accessible manner, and is an essential tool for anyone looking to increase their knowledge about high blood pressure and its management.

The whole book is a remarkable achievement, written, the authors are told, in a single term of residence at Magdalen, and the approach characteristically English-empirical, reasonable and tempered with humour and understanding.

The whole book is a remarkable achievement, written, the authors are told, in a single term of residence at Magdalen, and the approach characteristically English-empirical, reasonable and tempered with humour and understanding.

The diseases of the eye and adnexa are considered in detail, with their treatment, and the essential features of anatomy and physiology are also included.

Trusted information on high blood pressure (hypertension), including what it is, causes and risk factors, symptoms, treatments and how to prevent it is provided.

The author clearly believes that early diagnosis and treatment are now within reach, and that together they constitute the preventive surgery of congenital dislocation of the hip.

The second edition of G. W. Pickering's book is the most readable, lucid, and stimulating analysis of hypertension that I know, and is also the best documented, particularly on the earlier literature, although there are minor gaps in covering some of the more recent work.

About 1 of 3 adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure, only around half of which have their hypertension under control, and if untreated it will eventually lead to health problems such as heart disease, kidney failure, and dementia.

As the result of research during the past ten years or more of Goldblatt in the United States and Houssay in South America, and many others, information is now available regarding the mechanism of renal hypertension.

In a 2022 “AMA Moving Medicine” video update on hypertension, Rachel Villanueva, MD, president of the National Medical Association (NMA), and a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics/gynecology at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine notes that "hypertension does not necessarily make you feel bad to be causing damage".

Despite more than a decade of nationwide effort, including public education and screening programs, high blood pressure is still a major contributing factor in many of the 1.5 million heart attacks and 400,000 strokes yearly in the US.

Correlating prospective clinical case studies of snakebite victims with these controlled animal studies can generate base data for future venom research and using sub-lethal venom doses would reduce animal sacrifices.

The whole book is a remarkable achievement, written, the authors are told, in a single term of residence at Magdalen, and the approach characteristically English-empirical, reasonable and tempered with humour and understanding.

A doctor or nurse will wrap a cuff around your upper arm, pump the cuff full of air, and then let the air out really slow while they listen to your heart through a stethoscope.

This book will not only serve as a guide but also to fill up the gap of health education on this subject.

The benign phase of hypertension offers a great contrast to the malignant phase, where for a given grade of elevated arterial pressure the authors have a much greater variability in duration of life and course of illness ; so much so that some patients live their full span and die of unrelated disease.

The machine that measures blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer and a doctor or nurse listens with a stethoscope over an artery in the arm as the pressure in the cuff is lowered.