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Studies from University of Florida update current data on hypertension

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 8th, 2008

Scientists discuss in 'Pathogenesis of essential hypertension: historical paradigms and modern insights' new findings in hypertension. "Since its first identification in the late 1800s, a variety of etiologies for essential hypertension have been proposed. In this paper we review the primary proposed hypotheses in the context of both the time in which they were proposed as well as the subsequent studies performed over the years," scientists in the United States report.

"From these various insights, we propose a current paradigm to explain the renal mechanisms underlying the hypertension epidemic today. Specifically, we propose that hypertension is initiated by agents...

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