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Whatever the reason, Laragh's move should come as good news for most victims of hypertension. The new cardiovascular center will not only treat but study hypertensives and all the problems caused by their disease; it should help to focus more attention on a controllable illness that has suffered from professional neglect for too many years...
Some physicians still challenge Laragh's theories. But many doctors now do, or plan to do, renin profiling on all their hypertension patients. Most physicians already follow Laragh's lead in another area. In 1967 Laragh discovered and reported a link between oral contraceptives and high blood pressure. Other researchers confirmed the connection, but it remained for Laragh to explain it: the Pill's estrogen-like substances stimulate the renin system, which in turn causes increased aldosterone production. The result in about 25% of all women who use the Pill: high blood pressure. Laragh and his colleagues...
...quiet, modest man, Laragh credits his accomplishments to an open mind ("You have to consider every possibility") and painstaking research. "You learn more by studying a few patients in great depth than you do by studying thousands superficially," he says. "If your methods are good and your experiments carefully conceived, it doesn't matter whether you study a handful or a multitude; the results should be the same...
...Laragh, like his mentor, also believes in hard work. He gets to his office by 7 o'clock most mornings and shuttles between there, the Hypertension Center and his laboratory until hunger, exhaustion or Jean Sealey-a biochemist and his bride of four months-forces him to stop. "We haven't even had a honeymoon yet," complains Jean in a soft burr that attests to her origins in Glasgow, Scotland. "The day after we were married we went off to a hypertension meeting in Milan." But Laragh, who has two sons by a previous marriage that ended...
...Many of Laragh's colleagues and co-workers at Columbia Presbyterian plan to follow him in the 100-block move to The New York Hospital because they like what one calls "the atmosphere of scientific ferment" that surrounds their leader. One female lab technician has another reason for tagging along with Laragh. "It's those Irish eyes," she says. Laragh's reason for taking his new post: "It's a chance to do more...