Wenn wir uns mit dem mild en oder leichten Hochdruck befassen, miissen wir uns be wuBt sein, daB es sich dabei flir den einzelnen urn eine verhaltnismaBig leichte Erkran kung handelt, die nur ein geringes Risiko darstellt. 1m Hinblick auf die Gesamtbeurtei lung stellt der leichte Hochdruck eher ein bedeutsames sozialmedizinisches Problem dar. Von allen Patienten mit hohem Blutdruck fallen etwa 80-85% in die Kategorie des leichten Hochdrucks. Wenn wir annehmen, daB von den iiber Vierzigjahrigen jeder flinfte einen erhohten Blutdruck hat, so bedeutet ein Anteil von 80-85% eine ganz be...

Hypertension has certainly been one of the topics most fre quently discussed at symposia, meetings, and congresses during recent years. There may be several reasons for this; three of them are obvious: firstly, the fact that a large proportion of the world's population is suffering from various forms of hypertensive disease; secondly, increasing knowledge of the pathogenesis of hypertension and of the disturbances underlying it; and, thirdly, the marked progress which has been made in antihypertensive therapy over the past fifteen years. When plans for the present symposium were being drawn...

Hypertension has certainly been one of the topics most fre quently discussed at symposia, meetings, and congresses during recent years. There may be several reasons for this; three of them are obvious: firstly, the fact that a large proportion of the world's population is suffering from various forms of hypertensive disease; secondly, increasing knowledge of the pathogenesis of hypertension and of the disturbances underlying it; and, thirdly, the marked progress which has been made in antihypertensive therapy over the past fifteen years. When plans for the present symposium were being drawn...