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Tar Heel Scientists Finding High Blood Pressure Clues Major strides toward control ol high blood pressure have been 1 made in recent years, notably in ' the field of dru4s, as a result of ' heart research, reported the North 1 Carolina Heart Assoclaiton today. ? One of the projects in this state ' supported by the American Heart Association, to which the North Carolina Heart Association is afTUl- ' ated, is being conducted at the I Bowman-Gray School of Medicine | of Wake Forest College in Winston Salem. There, Dr. Harold D. Green ! arid his associates are studvine the , cause* and control of high blood pressure. According to Dr. Green, the pres sure of blood In the arteries has to be kept up to a normal level In order to supply an adequate flow of blood to the brain. Maintaining normal pressure is the job oi the "arterioles," the last tiny arteries which feed blood from the arteries Into the capillaries. When the arterioles contract, blood Is dammed up In the arteries and raises the pressure. If the con traction lasts for only a few mo ments, such as occurs in most peo ple during periods of stress, no particular harm is done. The mo ment of stress passes, the arterioles resume normal operation and the blood pressure drops back to Its normal level. However, If the arterioles are kept in a state of contraction for much longer periods ? weeks, or months, say ? the blood pres sure remains above normal and damage may gradually occur to the blood vessels, resulting In strokes, heart attacks or malignant hyper tension, which is high blood pres sure that qannot be brought down. Finding out what causes contrac tion of the arterioles determines the type of treatment given the pa tient. In some- cases, explains Dr. Green, surgery is indicated. An op eration known as a sympathectomy severs the nerves controlling the arterioles so they cannot respond to Impulses to contract. More com mon today, however, is the use of drugs to bring about the same re sult. At present there are Ave groups of drugs used to control blood pressure by acting on vari ous glands or nerve centers, de pending on where the stimulus toward arteriole contraction is com ing from. "One group of drugs prevents adrenalin, released from the adren al gland, from causing the arteri oles to contract," says Dr. Green. "These drugs are particularly use ful in diagnoaing a <Mm of hyper tension caused By tumor of the adrenal gland, which releases too much adrenalin into the blood stream. Another drug group stops nerve messages which go from the spinal cord to the arterioles. This allows the arterioles to relax. These drugs act on the ganglia, which are switching statios along the course of the sympathetic nerves. "A third group of drugs," con tinued Dr. Green, "reduces the ac tivity of a group of cells at the up per end of the spinal cord?the vasomotor center In the brain. This decreases the number of nerve mes sages going down the cord and out the sympathetic nerves to the arterioles, again allowing- Uiem to relax. A fourth drug group stimulates sensory nerves in the heart and in the artery that goes to the brain? the carotid artery. The messages carried by these nerves to the brain cause the nerve cells at the upper end of the spinal cord to sltow down. Thus they have in directly an effect similar to the de pressant drugs of the third group. The fifth drug group," concludes Dr. Green, "are direct acting drugs which affect the arterioles directly, causing them to relax." It can be seen that the battery of drugs described by Dr. Green gives the physician a wide choice in what will be of most benefit to his patient. This represents great progress over earlier methods of treating hypertension. Further ad vances in the field of drug therapy, either through combination of known drugs or through discov ery of new ones are being reported by heart researches elsewhere in the nation. Research, supported by contribu tions to the Heart Fund, is gradu ally pushing back the frontiers of what is known about many diseases at tbe heart and Mood vessels. Still unknown are the basic causes of high blood pressure, but, with con tinued research, medical scientists now feel the answers are not far ?ff A typical U. S. homemaker will wash a half million separate dishes In a lifetime, about 70 stacks as high as tbe Empire State Building, me survey indicates. District WSCS Meet Scheduled April 26th The 10th annual meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Serv ice of the Waynenvile District wilt be held at Cherokee Methodist Church, Cherokee, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. * Miss Laura M. Jones, district president, will preside. The women are requested to bring lunch. Most tractor accidents occur when the machines are driven too fast says the National Safety Council. Junior Old Timers Club Annual Meeting This Week Dwlght J. Thomson, executive assistant to the president of the Champion Paper and Fibre Com pany, will be the principal speak er at the annua! meeting of the Junior Old Timers Club at the Champion Y M C A In Canton Thursday at 0 p.m. < Thomson, also a Champion vice president In charge of Industrial and public relations, will bring a message from top management to Junior Old llmers. A total of 370 employees at the Carolina division are eligible to attend the annual pally. Phil G. Klnken, assistant super intendent of pulp mills, will pre side, and the invocation will be given by the Rev. Kenneth D. Grouse, pastor of the Morning Star Methodist Church, near Canton. Junior Old Timers will be wel comed by H. A. Helder, viee-presl dent and general manager of the Carolina division, and Marshall G. Cooper, president of the Junior Old Timers Club for '355-8*, will respond. Frank Eariey, of the finishing department, will serve as chair man of the nominating committee to recommend a new slate of dub officers. The banquet menu will be super vised by Mrs. Ben Orube and after dinner entertainment will feature the WNOX Variety show from Knoxvllle. Lowell Blanchard will be master of ceremonies and entertainment will feature such stars as the Mel odyalres quartet. Bill Crowther and his baritone folk songs. Red and Fred, a rustic comedy team, and Jerry Collins, piano spctallst. The fol'Rowing 60 Carolina Cham pion emi j'loyees become eligible for club .membership this year: R. W. Allison, Ernest Anderson. Wilson llerefoot. Dorothy Bentley, Leona Boone, H. F. Boyd, Howard Cole, IB. D. Coleman, Jr., Maude Curtis,,' Hugh Eartey, A. M. Falr brothf ir, John Ford, Bill Franklin, Jame 1 . Oaddls, Charles Gregory, Joe fAam Hardin, Turner Harklns, W. ??.! Harris, Levi Haynes, Nina HensphiU and W. 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