Health and Medicine Question #2119
Ava Gabourel, a 13 year old female from New York asks on June 2, 2004,
Who discovered High Blood Pressure and what year?
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The answer
Barry Shell
answered on June 9, 2004
Not sure what you mean by this question, but a quick google search turned up a site about the history of blood pressure measurement. The first recorded case was in 1733 when a Reverend Stephen Hales measured the blood pressure of a horse. CHeck out the American Collage of Cardiology's histroy of hypertension. Wikipedia also now has a decent history of hypertension, and a formal article by can be found at the US National Library of Medicin.
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