Abstract
The diagnosis of high blood pressure is essentially an exercise in mensuration. It is one of the few conditions whose label is applied as a result, almost entirely, of an objective measurement by a man-made machine — the sphygmomanometer.
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© 1985 John Fry
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Fry, J. (1985). High Blood Pressure. In: Common Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4924-9_18
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