RT Journal
A1 DANA HW
T1 THeories regarding blood pressure
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD May 17
VO 72
IS 20
SP 1432
OP 1434
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610200004002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610200004002
AB For a number of years, there have appeared from time to time books by various authors purporting to give to the reader a complete understanding of blood pressure, the causation and the measuring of changes in the various factors, and the blood-pressure conditions to be found in all diseases. Independent observers have also put forth formulas for the determination, by means of blood-pressure estimation, of cardiac efficiency.Recently I have had the opportunity of studying blood-pressure findings in a large number of army officers and candidates for commissions in the army, chiefly in men over 30 years of age, medical officers being in a large majority. I am not here presenting statistics as to the distribution of these cases among different age periods, or as to the classifying of the blood-pressure readings obtained; for, while these figures might be of interest, it does not seem to me that such statistics