This is a Festschrift to Professor Sir Stanley Peart, Professor of Medicine at St. Mary's
Hospital and Medical School, University of London since 1956, who has influenced and …

Some individuals enjoy a high salt diet with impunity: others, on the other hand, raise their
blood pressure and suffer the consequences. Multiple observations suggest that familial …

Studies of kidney cross-transplantation in the Milan hypertensive strain of rats (MHS) and in
its control strain (MNS) have demonstrated that the kidney has a causal role in the …

Everyone interested in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension believes that this does
not represent a single process with a single pathogenesis. Indeed, over the past century and …

The role of genetic factors in essential hypertension is supported by studies of subjects with
known genetic relationships (family studies)(41–43) monozygotic twins (25, 26, 37, 38) …

It took some boldness on my part to cling to the term “Essential hypertension” in a
Scandinavian-born blood pressure Journal, given the customary preference in northern …

In many patients with kidney disease, once renal excretory function is significantly
compromised, filtration capacity will progressively decline until end-stage renal failure …

Pharmacological interruption of the renin system has played a crucial role in our
understanding of this system's contribution to normal physiological processes and in the …

Recent evidence from a number of sources has clearly documented that the major problem
facing the clinician treating a patient with hypertension is the large degree of non …