THE ROLE OF HYPERTENSION IN THE ETIOLOGY AND PROGNOSIS OF CORONARY OCCLUSION

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Abstract
In 1160 cases of coronary occlusion with various blood pressure levels, from normal to extreme hypertension, the incidence of hypertension and coronary occlusion was found to increase with age but not to the same degree. More males than females had the first attack of coronary occlusion in the lower blood pressure groups in the over-all age groups, but the sex discrepancy appears to be due to the relatively greater incidence of hypertension in the females. A greater percentage of males than females lived more than 1,5 and 10 years following the first attack of coronary occlusion even in the face of the relatively greater incidence of hypertension in females. The figures do not appear to indicate that hypertension has any definite causal and prognostic relationship to coronary occlusion.

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