The rise of epidemiology as a discipline and the birth of hypertension as a disease
In February 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then U.S. president, arrived at the Yalta Conference to negotiate the post-war future of Europe alongside Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. The American president appeared visibly exhausted, lethargic and physically frail. Behind those images lay a silent medical crisis. Roosevelt’s blood pressure had reached around 260/150 mm Hg before…
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