Word: adrenaller
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To most doctors, and consequently to their patients, the disorders that are lumped under the name "high blood pressure" seem a world apart from the disease known as diabetes. The startling truth, reported by the University of Michigan's Dr. Jerome W. Conn to the New England Diabetes Association...
Dr. Conn, 58, is one of the nation's top authorities on a form of high blood pressure that used to be dumped into the catchall category of "cause unknown." Not until the early 1960s was this form found to be caused by an excess of the potent hormone...
How Would We Know? It was while he was treating some aldosteronism patients at U.M. Hospital in Ann Arbor that Dr. Conn noted the similarity to diabetes; 40% showed the same sugar-metabolism problems that plague adult diabetics. This was enough, he says, "to stimulate my imagination." He went on...
Ebert's research has centered primarily on infections of the lungs, especially tuberculosis. He has investigated cellular and vascular responses to inflamation and hypersensitivity, and has sought to modify these responses through the use chemotherapy and adrenal steroids.
But a group of researchers at Ohio State University Hospitals wanted to know whether the body, in its responses to stress, distinguishes between anger and fear. And since it is known that the body's arousal mechanism depends heavily upon an outpouring of adrenalin, the researchers also wanted to...