The Concept of Essential Hypertension

Article1 December 1955THE CONCEPT OF ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSIONG. W. PICKERING, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.P. (Hon.)G. W. PICKERING, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.P. (Hon.)Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-43-6-1153 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptI need hardly stress to you the importance of concepts in medicine. These concepts determine our whole attitude to the management of the disease and thus, in large measure, the fate of our patients. Nevertheless, it is important to realize that concepts of disease are in the nature of scientific hypotheses; they are necessary expedients in the search for knowledge, but they are useful only so long as they accord with the facts. Once they cease so to accord, they should be discarded and replaced by some other idea that does. It is my present purpose to show that the...Bibliography1. HamiltonPickeringRobertsSowry MGWJAGS: The aetiology of essential hypertension. I. The arterial pressure in the general population, Clin. Sc. 13: 11, 1954a. MedlineGoogle Scholar2. RobinsonBrucer SCM: Range of normal blood pressure. A statistical and clinical study of 11,383 persons, Arch. Int. Med. 64: 409, 1939. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. : Blood pressure study, 1939, Actuarial Society of America and the Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors, New York, 1940. Google Scholar4. Bechgaard P: One thousand hypertonics followed for sixteen to twenty-two years, Abstract, Third International Congress on Internal Medicine, 1954, p. 17. Google Scholar5. HamiltonPickeringRobertsSowry MGWJAGS: The aetiology of essential hypertension. 4. The role of inheritance, Clin. Sc. 13: 273, 1954c. MedlineGoogle Scholar6. Pickering GW: The relationship of benign and malignant hypertension, J. Mt. Sinai Hosp. 8: 916, 1942. Google Scholar7. Pickering GW: The pathogenesis of malignant hypertension, Circulation 6: 599, 1952b. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: G. W. PICKERING, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.P. (Hon.)Affiliations: London, England*From the Symposium on Hypertension, presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1955. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byGenotypic and Phenotypic Heterogeneity—Hurdles and Opportunities in the Quest for Hypertension-Related GenesDigestive Symptoms in Healthy People and Subjects With Irritable Bowel SyndromeGenetic and Molecular Aspects of HypertensionElevations of local intravascular pressures release vasoactive substances in humansGenetic basis of blood pressure and hypertensionGenetics and Hypertension: Which Information for Clinical PracticeThe Quantitative Approach to Disease Exemplified by Essential HypertensionSystolic and pulse hypertensionHypertension: a disorder of volume control? what is the evidence?Pathogenesis of Hypertension: Genetic and Environmental FactorsPathogenesis of Hypertension: Genetic and Environmental FactorsAn Overview of Essential Hypertension in Americans as a Multifactorial Phenomenon: Interaction of Biologic and Environmental FactorsHypertensionTHE APPLICATION OF MOLECULAR GENETIC TECHNIQUES TO THE STUDY OF HYPERTENSIVE DISEASESInterpretation by Physicians of Clinical Laboratory ResultsStudio Genetico sulla Ipertensione Essenziale e sui suoi Rapporti con la Cefalea VascolareThe Precursors of HypertensionFamilial Patterns in Hypertension and Coronary Heart DiseaseRecent Contributions to Adolescent MedicineAcute myocardial infarction in a city hospitalREFERENCESThe Drug Therapy of HypertensionA STUDY OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN WOMEN*HERBERT L. WEINREB, M.D., ELAINE GERMAN, M.D., BENJAMIN ROSENBERG, M.D., F.A.C.P.Hypertensive Vascular Disease in Adolescence 1 December 1955Volume 43, Issue 6Page: 1153-1160KeywordsHypertensionLesionsNecrosis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 December 1955 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright ©, 1955, by The American College of PhysiciansPDF downloadLoading ...