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Vascular Diseases

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Edward D. Freis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 550
Abstract A pioneer in the study of hypertension, Edward D. Freis, M.D., is best known for leading the 5-year Veterans Administration Cooperative Study on Antihypertensive Agents which proved the value of antihypertensive drugs in decreasing morbidity and mortality; this study was the first multi-clinic, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of its kind. Freis's collection of articles, photographs, scrapbooks, and subject files chronicle his sixty-year career in the study of hypertension...
Dates: 1926-2004
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections