Outline Types High blood pressure Meaning

This video is about the different stages of blood pressure and described five different stages of blood pressure starting from normal to hig...

Summary Basic High blood pressure Terminology

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Surprises from the 1994 Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) study

Low-protein disappoints; attention drawn to proteinuria and blood pressure The MDRD study was a landmark trial set up to prove the importanc...

High blood pressure becomes treatable

The first unequivocally useful drug, 1964 Robust and practical sphygmomanometers (mercury and aneroid) became available in the early 1900s...

The perils of Salt

Dialysis finally forced recognition of its importance in kidney disease The Amazonian Yanomami Indians famously manage on only 50mg (1 mmol...

The doctor's bag circa 1910

This doctor’s bag is in the London Science Museum. Though dated 1890-1930 much of its contents look very early 20th century. What it doesn’t...

Bright's disease 100y after Bright

The last decade of purely clinical observation Acute glomerulonephritis with crescent formation - Volhard and Fahr 1914 (one of the last ren...

Hepatitis outbreaks run through renal units: 1964-72

Staff as well as patients die, and new patients are turned down in affected centres From about 1964 there was increasing excitement that dia...

The glomerulus is a filter

Physiologists resolve an anatomical impasse, 1924 Illustrations of Malpighian bodies, from Bowman 1842, Philosophical Transactions 132: 57-...

Insipid diabetes

A disease of 1769 becomes a treatment in 2015 The Edinburgh physician William Cullen described the difference between ‘sweet’ diabetes (mell...