Abstract:Abstract. Since 1955 we have registered patients suffering from essential hypertension. 433 cases, 225 men and 208 women, were graded according to WHO and Hammarström and Bechgaard's system. Medical treatment was started and followed up by one of us (HSM). The numbers of deaths in the treated sample and in an “untreated” series of 290 hypertensive patients are compared with the death rate in the corresponding general population in Norway. The same persons have made the classification of the treated and “untre… Show more
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