THE EVALUATION OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE PROCEDURES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THEIR EFFECTS ON BLOOD PRESSURE
Authors: A C CORCORAN, H P DUSTAN, I H PAGE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1955)

Article1 December 1955THE EVALUATION OF ANTIHYPERTENSIVE PROCEDURES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THEIR EFFECTS ON BLOOD PRESSUREA. C. CORCORAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., HARRIET P. DUSTAN, M.D., IRVINE H. PAGE, M.D., F.A.C.P.A. C. CORCORAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., HARRIET P. DUSTAN, M.D., IRVINE H. PAGE, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-43-6-1161 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSuppose, then, a physician who has a hundred patients prescribes to each of them pills made of some entirely inert substance as starch, for instance. Ninety of them get well, or if he chooses to use such language, he cures ninety of them. It is evident, according to the doctrine of chances, that there must be a considerable number of coincidences between the relief of the patient and the administration of the remedy. It is altogether probable that there will happen two or threevery strikingcoincidences out of the whole ninety cases, in which it would seem evident that...Bibliography1. Van SlykeStillmanMollerEhrichMcIntoshLeiterMacKayHannonMooreJohnston DDEEWJFLEMRRNSC: Observations on the courses of the different types of Bright's disease and on the resultant changes in renal anatomy, Medicine 9: 257, 1930. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. CorcoranTaylorPage ACRDIH: Functional patterns in renal disease, Ann. Int. Med. 28: 560, 1948. LinkGoogle Scholar3. FazekasKlehFinnerty JFJFA: Influence of age and vascular disease on cerebral hemodynamics and metabolism, Am. J. Med. 18: 477, 1955. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. CorcoranDustanTaylorPage ACHPRDIH: Management of hypertensive disease, Am. J. Med. 17: 383, 1954. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. ReiserBrustFerris MFAAEB: Life situations, emotions and courses of patients with arterial hypertension, Psychosom. Med. 13: 133, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. TaylorCorcoranDustanPage RDACHPIH: Further evaluation of hydralazine in treatment of hypertensive disease, Arch. Int. Med. 93: 705, 1954. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. AymanGoldshine DAD: Blood pressure determinations by patients with essential hypertension. 1. The difference between clinic and home readings before treatment, Am. J. M. Sc. 200: 464, 1940. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. Page IH: A clinical study of malignant hypertension, Ann. Int. Med. 12: 978, 1939. LinkGoogle Scholar9. Schroeder HA: Hypertensive diseases. Causes and control, 1953, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia. Google Scholar10. Freis ED: The discrepancy between home and office recordings of blood pressure in patients under treatment with pentapyrrolidinium. Importance of home recordings in adjusting dosages, M. Ann. District of Columbia 23: 1, 1954. MedlineGoogle Scholar11. Smirk FH: Practical details of the treatment of hypertension by hexamethonium salts and by pentamethylene 1:5-bis-N(N-methyl-pyrrolidinium) bitartrate (M. and B. 2050 A), New Zealand M. J. 52: 325-348, 1953. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Cleveland, Ohio*From the Symposium on Hypertension, presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1955.From the Research Division of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Frank E. Bunts Educational Institute, Cleveland, Ohio. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byProblems in the Evaluation of Drugs in ManOut-of-Office Blood Pressure MonitoringSelf-Monitoring of Blood PressureEchocardiographic studies on elderly patients with white coat hypertension to evaluate cardiac organ damagesVarious aspects of blood pressure variabilityArtefacts in Measurement of Blood Pressure and Lack of Target Organ Involvement in the Assessment of Patients with Treatment-Resistant HypertensionAgnes D. Mejia, MD, Brent M. Egan, MD, Nicholas J. Schork, BA, Andrew J. Zweifler, MDAmbulatory pressure monitoring in the assessment of antihypertensive therapySelf-measurement of blood pressureHome Blood Pressure RecordingSelf-Monitoring of Blood PressureArterial Blood Pressure Measurements with a Portable Recorder in Hypertensive PatientsEffect of Carotid Sinus Stimulation on the Electrocardiograms of Clinically Normal IndividualsClinical Evaluation of Antihypertensive Drugs 1 December 1955Volume 43, Issue 6Page: 1161-1177KeywordsBlood pressureHypertensionStarches ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 December 1955 PDF downloadLoading ...