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GEORGE E. DIMOND, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1963;112(4):550-554.

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Hypertension was formerly thought to be a direct precursor of coronary heart disease.¹ Master concurred with this view in 1939, reversed his opinion in 1953, and in 1961 felt that in men the relationship of the two diseases is not too clear.^1,2 Sigler's figures did not indicate that hypertension has any definite casual and prognostic relationship to coronary occluson.³

Keys in 1961 reviewed a few of the more mature epidemiologic studies in progress.⁴ In some, definite hypertension and relative body weight seemed to be significantly prognostic of subsequent coronary heart disease, but in the group followed by Keys and his associates neither was important.⁴ Stamler states that hypertension greatly increases the risk of cerebral and coronary atherosclerotic disease and urges practicing physicians to control hypertension and reduce their overweight patients to prevent coronary disease.⁵

This report is a follow-up study of 527 railway operating employees who were observed to develop . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Received for publication Feb 28, 1963; accepted April 8.

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