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Blood Pressure in Early Life

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IN a friendly review of my work on “Blood Pressure in Early Life” appearing in NATURE of January 10, criticism is directed to a deduction I made on pp. 50–51 regarding the average expenditure of work by the heart in maintaining the circulation at different ages. Though this was only one of the sixteen main conclusions, and I admitted it to be the most doubtful of them, I should be glad to have the opportunity of replying to the points which are raised.

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STOCKS, P. Blood Pressure in Early Life. Nature 115, 301–302 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115301a0

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