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Pathogenesis of essential hypertension.

Abstract

It is proposed that essential hypertension is an exaggeration of the tendency for blood-pressure to rise with age, that it results from a repeated sequence in which a small rise in pressure, possibly resulting from an autonomic nervous overactivity, produces changes in the kidney which maintain the rise of pressure and become the basis for a further rise.

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J J Brown, A F Lever, J I Robertson. 1976-06-05. Pathogenesis of essential hypertension.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(76)92164-4

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