HYPERTENSION AS A REACTION PATTERN TO STRESS; SUMMARY OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON VARIATIONS IN BLOOD PRESSURE AND RENAL BLOOD FLOW
Authors: S WOLF, J B PFEIFFER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Article1 December 1948HYPERTENSION AS A REACTION PATTERN TO STRESS; SUMMARY OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON VARIATIONS IN BLOOD PRESSURE AND RENAL BLOOD FLOWSTEWART WOLF, JOHN B. PFEIFFER, HERBERT S. RIPLEY, OLIVER S. WINTER, HAROLD G. WOLFF, F.A.C.P.STEWART WOLF, JOHN B. PFEIFFER, HERBERT S. RIPLEY, OLIVER S. WINTER, HAROLD G. WOLFF, F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-29-6-1056 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThere has long been an awareness of a relationship between life situations, emotions and the level of blood pressure in normal and hypertensive subjects. Moreover, it has been suspected that such pressor effects have relevance to the pathogenesis of essential hypertension but the connection has not been established. 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Y.*Presented at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, San Francisco, April 19, 1948.From the New York Hospital and the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry of the Cornell University Medical College, New York, N. Y. 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