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 manmade machine — the sphygmomanometer.
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Fry, J. (1974). High Blood Pressure. In: Common Diseases: Their Nature Incidence and Care. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7276-7_11
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