A CLINICAL STUDY OF HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

Abstract

<h3>CONTENTS</h3> Material studied. Sex distribution. Proportion of living and dead. Age distribution. Distribution by height of systolic blood-pressures. Symptoms associated with hypertension: Cardiac symptoms. Renal symptoms. Cerebral symptoms. General symptoms. Symptoms depending upon other diseases. Causes of death and the relation of early symptoms to them: Distribution by causes of death. Sex distribution. Age in relation to causes of death. The relation of blood-pressure to causes of death. Distribution by symptoms. The relation of blood-pressure to early symptoms. The relation of early symptoms to causes of death. The study here reported was begun a year and a half ago. It was undertaken primarily with a view to determining whether or not a critical analysis of a large group of histories of persons with high blood-pressure would disclose any hitherto unsuspected relations