THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION
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DOI：
10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a074193
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发表时间：
1952-01-01
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
PICKERING, GW
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作者：
PICKERING, GW
The arterial blood pressure may become raised transiently or persistently in a variety of diseases having more or less welldefined characteristics. These diseases will be mentioned briefly at the end of this article. More commonly the rise of arterial pressure is the presenting abnormality throughout and may possibly play the chief role in determining the changes in structure or function which limit the subject's ability to live a full and carefree life and ultimately determine his death. Such patients, suffering from what is generally termed essential hypertension, form numerically much the more important group, accounting for more than three-fourths of all cases. It is much the more difficult to study, chiefly because its presenting feature, the raised blood pressure, is a characteristic that is not obvious to the patient or his friends; because the blood pressure is not fixed but varies with circumstances; and because the normal limits of arterial pressure are exceedingly difficult to define.
