HYPERTENSION AND ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN
A random sampling of Hiroshima residents, comprising 1,051 males and 1,872 females, was studied with respect to the interrelations of hypertension, ischemic heart disease, blood lipid levels, and ionizing irradiation experienced during the atom bombing of 1945. No significant effect of ionizing radiation upon the cardiovascular system was detected. No major difference in age-sex specific mean blood pressures between Hiroshima residents and a suitable white American comparison group was found. Japanese sxhibit low serum cholesterol concentratious by Western standards and elevated levels are predominantly limited to the obese. Both factors appear of importance in the occasional hypertensive Japanese with ischemic heart disease. The therapeutic implication of this observation is briefly discussed. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima-Nagasaki
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- NSA Number:
- NSA-18-005031
- OSTI ID:
- 4123508
- Journal Information:
- Circulation (U.S.), Journal Name: Circulation (U.S.) Vol. Vol: 28; ISSN CIRCA
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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