| Abstrakt: |
A review of the literature since 1919, with a casual examination of the literature for ten years before 1919, has shown a prodigious number of papers on hypertension. Follow-up studies have been remarkably few and, as far as we can learn, have been made on patients under treatment for cardiovascular diseases. Further study has shown that such researches have been made on groups of patients more or less selected by the class of practice under control of the author, such as the work of Janeway, Paullin, Christian, and other eminent consultants. Mortality statistics by a follow-up study of unselected cases have not been found.This study has been made as follows: We have removed from the file and examined individually 17,500 histories recorded between Jan. 1, 1918, and June, 1924, by eight physicians with their associates, doing all classes of private work except obstetrics and pediatrics. Each general history showing |
