TY  - JOUR
T1  - THeories regarding blood pressure
AU  - DANA HW
Y1  - 1919/05/17
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610200004002
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1432
EP  - 1434
VL  - 72
IS  - 20
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610200004002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610200004002
ER  -