Epidemiological Study on the High Blood Pressure

Abstract

The authors have already reported the results of statistical observations on “the relation between high blood pressure and various diseases, and recognition of high blood pressure.”We have there made clear that the majority of high blood pressure cases appears in and after the middle aged person, and the effect of long living environment, especially the dietary custom, has the essential relation to its origin.In this study, picking up 207 persons from almsmen and almswomen in the almshouse in Tokyo and patients in the attached hospital, we investigated the tendency of their dietary taste and heredity from their dietary customs, which are considered as a factor of the origin of high blood pressure.As the result, there was no considerable difference between the almspersons and patients in the hospital, however, the tendency for the whole of the high blood pressure patients was as follows;(1) Dietary taste and amount of taking of table salt, hydrocarbon, animal fat and animal protein were high.(2) Our result was the same as the report that the habitual use of liquor is not probably as the direct cause of high blood pressure.(3) Heredity has probably a considerable factor as a cause of high blood pressure.