The Effect of Treatment on Mortality Rates in Severe Hypertension

Results of Hypotensive Therapy in Arterial Hypertension

“…Barnett (1956) obtained a survival rate at twelve months of 7200 in patients with grade 4 hypertension, but only 5 out of 32 grade 4 patients survived to four years. Perry and Schroeder (1958) found a significantly lower mortality in treated than in untreated patients . Dustan Schneckloff.…”

Relationship Between Level of Blood Pressure Measured Casually and by Portable Recorders and Severity of Complications in Essential Hypertension

“…These complications are identical to those seen in essential hypertension and can be reversed by lowering the blood pressure by any of a variety of surgical procedures, '3-19 just as reducing the pressure in the severely hypertensive patient with pharmacological agents often results in regression of the cardiac and vascular manifestations." [20][21][22][23] Whether the relationship is causal or not, the degree of severity of hypertensive complications appears to be quantitatively related to the average level of arterial blood pressure: the higher the pressure, the greater the severity of the hypertensive complications. Circulation The relationship of the degree of severity of cardiovascular complications, graded according to ocular funduscopic, electrocardiographic, and roentgenographic (heart size) criteria to arterial blood pressure levels was investigated in 124 patients with essential hypertension.…”

Results of Treatment in Malignant Hypertension

“…Congestive heart failure, as in our series, was notably reduced as a cause of death. Perry and Schroeder (1958) reported their results with oral methonium and hydrallazine. In 82 cases of malignant hypertension there was a 50% four-year mortality.…”