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. H. Henson.
It. D. Herndon, Jr., Gerald G.
H'ill, El wood Howell, Vincent Ives
ter, Wayne Kins, RumcU Kinsland,
Paul Ledbetter, Ira Mataie, Spen
cer Matney, H. L. McDowell, Jr.,
Brace Nanney, Sam Parrlali, Bar- .
ton Ray, Gaaton Rhlnehart, Floyd .
Roberta, Charles F. Robinson,
Edith Mae Robinson, Glenn Rob
inson, Gurley Robinson, R. V.
Rush, Charles Scroggs, Luke Slash
ers and Glenn Stamey.
James R, Stamey, Clyde Stock
ton, Nannie Stiles, Roy Suttles,
Arley Swanger, Howard Taylor,
Roger H. Terrell, C. V. Watts,
Eston West, William Ray White
sides, Barbara Ann Wiley, James
E. Wilkinson, Vella B. Williams,
Bobbie Willis, L. E. Willis and
Salb M Wilson.
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