The authors have used the concentration of salt in sweat as an objective test to demonstrate the existence of a group of hypertensive patients with clinical signs of hyperadrenocortical function. The significantly lower concentration of salt in the sweat of patients with this endocrine hypertensive syndrome distinguishes them from other hypertensive patients who show no significant difference f...

The authors have used the concentration of salt in sweat as an objective test to demonstrate the existence of a group of hypertensive patients with clinical signs of hyperadrenocortical function. The significantly lower concentration of salt in the sweat of patients with this endocrine hypertensive syndrome distinguishes them from other hypertensive patients who show no significant difference f...

where pg « ƒ and p is a fibration with fiber F. Suppose that X is a CW-complex of dimension ^2conn(/ ) and conn (F) è l (conn = connectivity). Let [X, Y]B be the set of homotopy classes of pointed maps over f(H : X XI~*Y is a homotopy over ƒ if pHt—f for each / £ / ) . Becker proved in [2], [3] that under these hypotheses [X, Y]B can be given an abelian group structure with [g] as zero element....

Fifty years ago, Jerome Conn described 'a new clinical syndrome which is designated temporarily as primary aldosteronism' in a young patient with hypertension, severe hypokalaemia and a benign adrenocortical tumour, for whom an adrenalectomy cured both the hypertension and hypokalaemia. His report identified the condition known as aldosterone-producing adenoma, a form of curable hypertension. A...

Timely intervention for diabetic retinopathy (DR) lessens the possibility of blindness and can save considerable costs to health systems. To ensure that interventions are timely and effective requires methods of screening and monitoring pathological changes, including assessing outcomes. Fractal analysis, one method that has been studied for assessing DR, is potentially relevant in today's worl...