Word: slenderest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the two disorders are closely related-how, in scientific detail, no one knows. While it is true that many victims of arteriosclerosis show no hypertension, every victim of hypertension examined after death shows arterial damage of some kind. Hardening of the minute arterioles-the slenderest twigs at the extremities of the arterial tree-almost always goes with high blood pressure. Its immediate cause seems to be loss of elasticity in the arterioles' thin muscular walls...