HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND CHOLESTERIN
- 29 March 1930
- Vol. 1 (3612) , 587-588
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.3612.587
Abstract
Harris and Lipkin administered cholesterol, first in cholesterol-rich food, and later by cholesterol injections, to 11 hypertonic patients, taking the blood-pressure reading and determining the cholesterol content of the blood before and after the injection. The results indicate that "an enormous increase in blood cholesterol does not raise the pressure." They describe animal experiments tending to show that "the presence in itself of pressure-raising substances in the blood would never produce chronic hypertonia. High blood pressure is a condition in which, for some unknown reason, it is necessary for the tension to find an equilibrium at an abnormally high level. Luckily for the patients, all attempts on the part of the physician to disturb the new equilibrium usually end in failure.".This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: