OBESITY AND HYPERTENSION: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS

Abstract

Systolic blood pressure in normal and hypertensive dogs rises with wt. gain and falls with wt. loss; while diastolic pressure varies but little. The late hypertensive toxemia of pregnancy in the obese is 9 times as likely to develop a residual hypertension as those who remain normal in wt. Obesity, however, is not a cause of essential hypertension. The true relationship of obesity to human hypertension remains to be elucidated.