THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HYPERTENSION AND CORONARY OCCLUSION

Abstract

Of 1960 surveyed subjects, 23.7% of males and 55.0% of females with coronary occlusion were found to have hypertension by Master''s criteria. Even though the majority of males who sustained coronary occlusions were not hypertensive, the incidence of hypertension in both males and females with coronary occlusions was higher than in the general population in which hypertension is encountered in only 5%. Hypertension is postulated to be one of several etiologic factors in atherosclerosis and coronary occlusion. This hypertensive factor is of about equal absolute importance in both sexes but is relatively more significant in females.