Show Helps for The Heart One of the leading causes of death in America is heart disease with statistical figures figures figures fig fig- ures revealing that the fatality rate is on the increase ALL OF the causes for this increase in heart disease are not known but medical science is devoting endless hours and vast sums of money in attempting attempting attempting at at- tempting to find the answers One of the early findings in patients is a history of early hypertension or high blood pressure resulting from froma a known or unknown cause ITS IT'S MOST important that this early onset of hypertension sion is known a and n d proper treatment be started The best protection for the i individual is to regularly have havea a physical by his family physician i MODERN medical science 4 now has available many drugs that when taken by an individual individual individual in- in lower the elevated blood pressure Some are designed designed designed de- de signed to tranquilize the patient patient patient pa- pa tient and thereby lessen tension tension tension ten- ten sion and reduce the blood pressure Another group of drugs dilate the blood vessels of the kidney or indirectly through the nervous system of the body OTHER drugs have the unique property referred to toas i as nerve blocking and thereby preventing the constriction constriction con- con or narrowing of blood vessels by blocking excessive nervous reactions A fifth group of drugs available available available avail avail- able to your physician have a direct effect upon the kidneys kidneys kidneys kid kid- stimulating those organs organs organs or or- gans to excrete excessive salt from the body this group of drugs being referred to as diuretics WITH SUCH a formidable group of drugs at the disposal of your doctor he now can lower abnormally elevated blood pressure and thereby reduce damage to the cardiac muscle |