BLOOD PRESSURE
TRACING THE ORIGIN
CLEVELAND, April 1
The origin of high blood pressure—the world’s most common fatal ailment—has been traced to an insufficient supply of blood to the kidneys. This is announced by Dr. Harry Goldblatt, associate director of the Institute of Pathology of the Western Reserve Univeristy. Dr. Goldblatt said experiments on animals showed that the reduction of the How of blood to the kidneys evidently resulted in the produtcion of some substance in the kidneys which brought, on high blood pressure. This subsequently caused angina pectoris, coronary thrombosis, cerebral haemorrhage, and other diseases responsible for one-third of the deaths in America.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 April 1937, Page 7
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