Physical and Physiological Aspects of Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension
Authors: Carl J. Wiggers
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1932)

Article1 July 1932Physical and Physiological Aspects of Arteriosclerosis and HypertensionCARL J. WIGGERS, M.D., F.A.C.P.CARL J. WIGGERS, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-6-1-12 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIntroductionThe subjects of arteriosclerosis and hypertension have been extensively studied and even more extensively discussed by the clinician, pathologist, therapeutist and experimentalist, each naturally, according to his own point of view. But results of physical and physiological investigations have been more or less entombed in library stack-rooms; at least to my knowledge they have not been reviewed in such a form as to make the facts easily available.My own venture in attempting to review a topic in which so many gaps still exist is actuated by our need for survey of the known physical and physiological consequences of...Bibliography Arterial Elasticity and Pulse Velocity Mechanisms Producing Peripheral Resistance Increase Experimental Hemodynamics and Cardiodynamics Physiology of Clinical Hypertension BAZETTDRYER HCNB: Measurements of pulse wave velocity, Am. Jr. Physiol., 1922, lxiii, 94-116. CrossrefGoogle Scholar BRAMWELL JC: Arterial elasticity in man, Quart. Jr. Med., 1924, xvii, 225-243. CrossrefGoogle Scholar BRAMWELLHILL JCAV: The velocity of the pulse wave in man, Proc. Roy. Soc., 1922, xciii, Series B, 229-306. Velocity of transmission of pulse-wave and elasticity of arteries, Lancet, 1922, i, 891-892. 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