Medical World News cover

Digital Record

Identifier: 101584929X162

Staff Only

Digital Object (still_image)

Dates

Publication: 24 August 1973

Extent

1 Pages

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.