The Incidence and Management of Hypertension

In order to secure a broad view of the problem of hypertension in the community—its epidemiology, in the sense used by Emerson, 1 in contrast with its genesis and course in the individual patient—it is necessary to determine arterial blood pressure in a group of persons who are as nearly as unselected as possible. The data of Theodore Janeway 2 showed the frequency of the association of high blood pressure with various pathologic conditions, and among the important studies which since have developed the knowledge of the incidence of hypertension are those by Alvarez 3 and Diehl and Sutherland 4 on blood pressure in university students; by Faber 5 and Stahl 6 in groups of soldiers; by Aubertin 7 and Wildt 8 in the obese and elderly; by Fisk and Kopf 9 among insurance policyholders; by Boas and Fineberg 10 and by Jones and White 11 in patients with heart