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Title:
[Medical World News cover]
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Description:
This 1973 issue of Medical World News described hypertension as the "target of the year" and shows the impact of the landmark VA Cooperative Study of Antihypertensive Agents. The National High Blood Pressure Education Program had been established one year earlier, and initiated mass hypertension screening campaigns, as pictured on this cover.
Number of Image Pages:
1 (502,549 Bytes)
Date:
1973-08-24 (August 24, 1973)
Creator:
Medical World News
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
Rights:
Courtesy of Edward D. Freis.
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Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Hypertension
Exhibit Category:
The VA Cooperative Study and the Beginning of Routine Hypertension Screening, 1964-1980
Relation:
Metadata Record Target of the Year: Hypertension (August 24, 1973)
Box Number: 5
Folder Number: 28
Unique Identifier:
XFBBKW
Document Type:
Photographic prints
Language:
English
Format:
image/jpeg
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Scrapbooks, 1926-2004
Folder: Scrapbook 23 [photographs], 1973
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2008-01-15

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