This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Correction  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (12)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Irvine H. Page, MD

JAMA. 1976;236(23):2621-2622.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

NOW that hypertension has come of age and everyone is an expert, it is time to correct some common and often egregious errors in therapeutic management. These errors are, for the most part, simple and well known, but are frequently overlooked. The result: a considerable increase in the number of hypertensive persons is caused by false measurements and slipshod treatment of those who have hypertension.

Few measurements are made more often than blood pressure, since the introduction of the auscultatory method in 1905. It is such a simple technique that results are seldom suspected of being inaccurate. We are now in the middle of a massive campaign to "identify" hypertensive persons. The federal government has pulled out all the stops, with scary statistics, threats, and importunings, to persuade our people that hypertension is the second greatest killer. "No one, not even you, is exempt." It also has racial overtones in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cleveland Clinic Cleveland

From the Research Division of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Research Division, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106 (Dr Page).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?