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Review of Recent Observations

A. C. CORCORAN, M.D.; IRVINE H. PAGE, M.D.; G. M. C. MASSON, Ph.D.; ROBERT D. TAYLOR, M.D.; HARRIET DUSTAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1951;87(5):732-770.

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THE GREAT increase in the productive study of cardiovascular diseases generally and of hypertensive disease in particular has been especially notable in the period July 1949 to July 1950. The review which follows deviates from the staid and sometimes tedious paths of the classic review in that the field is considered in terms of concepts and technics with which we have some personal familiarity. Topics which could not readily fit into this frame have regretfully been omitted from consideration, while in order to maintain the perspective it has sometimes been necessary to extend beyond the time limits originally set. Lest this approach be considered unduly presumptuous, we note that it was selected at the request of the Chief Editor.

In a field which is changing so rapidly and in which the animal experiments of the recent past will almost surely soon be reflected in new approaches to clinical diagnosis and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND

From the Research Division, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and the Frank E. Bunts Educational Institute.

Footnotes
Dr. Dustan is a Postdoctorate Fellow, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service.