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We have bred and raised a colony of spontaneously hypertensive rabbits. It is concluded that there is a hereditary factor in hypertension and that the characteristic changes of blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive animals are similar to the normal rabbit population. These findings would indicate that spontaneously hypertensive rabbits have characteristics in common with man in his development of essential hypertension.
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