Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble, said Dr. Perera, is that in 20,000 scientific articles over the past 60 years, primary hypertension* has been tied to no fewer than 14 different diagnostic criteria or combinations of them. Estimates of its prevalence range from 5% to 25%. Heredity, sex, race, body type, personality, stress, pregnancy, occupation, diet and climate have been listed as all-important-and of little significance in its development. Mortality, among patients followed for ten years, ranges from 12% to 91%. After sifting all this chaff and studying almost 3,000 patients, Dr. Perera said that he has reached these conclusions...
...proposal, wrote Gould, "the networks have sat down for the first fitting of a straitjacket. They are confessing that they lack the gumption, economic resourcefulness and pride to lick their public-service problem individually, and that they need the weight of Uncle Sam to spell out specific and statistical criteria of civilized behavior...