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What is the prognosis and survival of individuals with excessive hypertension (systolic 200-250, diastolic 100-120) without cardiac or renal involvement?
What is the prognosis and survival of individuals with excessive hypertension (systolic 200-250, diastolic 100-120) without cardiac or renal involvement?
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A historical query regarding the prognosis of severe, uncomplicated hypertension.
IN THE Journal of the American Medical Association of December 21, 1932, under the heading, "Queries and Minor Notes," appears the following question:Can you give me any statistics or other definite information of assistance in the prognosis of blood pressure? For example, how definitely can one say how long a person with a pressure of 200 systolic will survive, or one with 250, or one with a diastolic of 100 or 120? I realize that many factors enter in, but I am especially interested in the effect such high pressures have on individuals who show no cardiac or renal . . .
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Alex M. Burgess (1948) studied this question.
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