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Verbatim Remarks

National Advisory Heart Council

June 14-16, 1951,

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MRS, LASKER: I am very anxious that the recommendations

of the committee on Arteriosclerosis be considered seriously and

that a mechanism be provided whereby more of our funds are put

into this problem.

500,OGC and 600,OCO die a year,

leads which, if put together and expanded, may make some solution

It is the main cause of death. Between

w dew-

It seems to me there are

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to-this disease,&.

I would like to suggest that there be a

committee of people both from the Council and Study Sections and

from outside, if necessary, a some biochemists and other people
that the staff would think were suitabl-I am thinking of possibly

Pincus of Worcester and C. H.

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who are- ' e chemists--to

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meet with the people who are already gettin
Steinar, Kendall, Mann, Eder and BarFwho have shown that estrogens
have some effect on arteriosclerosis in man;or at least that they

our grants like Katz,

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tkat some energetic program withA- bs pursued in this particular

field .

It seems to me there are leads here that were

before, and it is one of the greatest thivgs any

solve this problem.

I think the talk of

shows there were a number of

more study and more evaluation of these drugs -til&

something

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very satisfactory for high blood pressure can be found.

I am

g the work of Dr. Wilkins and

I am also very anxious that something more be done in the

disease. There was a conference this

yea2 and there are many possible leads) especially some work
recorded by Dr. Foley and MeiEmn and Dr. Wright in treatment of

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cerebral arteriosclerosis when one had diagnosed thrombosi? m

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about is that the

Institute staff itself has prepared what has been considered by

lay men who have seen it a superb report- in very simple words

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on the work of the various grantees of

worka. I find that members

of the Council by some chance haven't received it get.

It has been

sent to the members of the National Heart Committee, many of whom

are lay men and to some of the people in Congress who were interested

and they have been thrilled to find that they could.-

et without reading many long complicated pages and paragraphs.

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DR. MATT: I think the record should show that this

represents, first, the work of Mr. Lea E4a,rtin in reporting
(What Progress Against Heart Disease 1953), what progress in

actual work.

thing like this (indicating).

like this (indicating).

?(?e provided with just a piece of paper--looks some-

         The next time we saw it, it looked

I think Mrs. Lasker is entirely too modest

when she gives us the credit that somewhere along the line someone

had a very fine idea to put this into this form and also to provide

for what it took to get it in t is form.

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MRS. LASKER:

I also want to thank Dr. ldhite for his generous

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words and agree with him about what he  says.