A STANDARD TEST FOR MEASURING THE VARIABILITY OF BLOOD PRESSURE: ITS SIGNIFICANCE AS AN INDEX OF THE PREHYPERTENSIVE STATE
Authors: Edgar A. Hines, George E. Brown
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1933)

Article1 August 1933A STANDARD TEST FOR MEASURING THE VARIABILITY OF BLOOD PRESSURE: ITS SIGNIFICANCE AS AN INDEX OF THE PREHYPERTENSIVE STATEEDGAR A. HINES JR., M.D., GEORGE E. BROWN, M.D., F.A.C.P.EDGAR A. HINES JR., M.D., GEORGE E. BROWN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-7-2-209 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn health there is a balance of the various divisions of the autonomic nervous system that varies with the normal physiologic demands. It is likely that phylogenetic and anatomic factors, as well as the functional requirements of the organs have determined certain thresholds of activity of the sympathetic control of the different organs. The maintenance of cardiac rate at about 70 beats a minute, the control of surface temperature within a certain range, the activity of the sweat glands, and the control of the arterial blood pressure, illustrate these physiologic balances. Overactivity of the sympathetic and parasympathetic components of the...Bibliography CRAIGBROWN WMGE: Experiments on the control of blood pressure by operation on the sympathetic nervous system, Proc. Staff Meet., Mayo Clinic, 1932, vii, 61-64. Google Scholar DONNISON CP: Blood pressure in the African native; its bearing upon etiology of hyperpiesia and arteriosclerosis, Lancet, 1929, i, 6-7. CrossrefGoogle Scholar VON MONAKOW P: Blutdrucksteigerung und Niere, Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med., 1920, cxxxiii, 129-152. Google Scholar MUELLERBROWN SCGE: Hourly rhythms in blood pressure in persons with normal and elevated pressures, ANN. INT. MED., 1930, iii, 1190-1200. 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