| Autor: |
William G. Walker, James P. O'hare, M. C. Vickers |
| Rok vydání: |
1924 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 83:27 |
| ISSN: |
0098-7484 |
| DOI: |
10.1001/jama.1924.02660010031009 |
| Popis: |
No one who has had any contact with hypertensive patients can escape the impression that heredity plays an important role in the production of high blood pressure. Such an impression is obtained from observing certain families in which an extraordinary number of the individuals comprising them have died of vascular disease. Rosenbloom in 19221reported one such family in which ten of the twelve members had high blood pressure. Raymond2reported another in which nine members died of apoplexy. In our clinic we have had several such families. One of them contains nine members who have suffered from vascular disease of one type or another. We have another patient with a coronary infarct in whom heredity seems to offer the only possible etiology. He is 42, has a negative Wassermann reaction, has never worked hard physically or mentally, and is certainly not of the nervous type. His family |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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