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Lasker:

That's right, people in low economic groups will be able to come into clinics and get routine screening, and if they have it, obtain treatment.

Q:

They will obtain treatment as a result?

Lasker:

Yes, to whatever extent that the money that's appropriated will do this. I'm sure that next year we'll have to ask for much more money, because I think it's a very big problem, and that we'll gradually find out how to handle it in an expeditious way, and that it will become something that will be done for a very long time, until we find out what the real cause and cure of high blood pressure is. It is a major public health problem, and it's come to being treatable with public health measures. You don't have to inject anything. The drugs that cxontrol it are inexpensive and available. They do need adjustment in dosage for people, getting ar reaction to the drug, but this is not a complicated treatment problem, compared with let's say the treatment of cancer.

Q:

And the fact that now it will be possible to concentrate on so many cases should --

Lasker:

-- yes, it ought to change the death rate.

The Citizens for Treatment of High Blood Pressure have two very able staff members, Mr. Tom Reutersham and Miss Ann Penn.

Q:

Did you recruit these people?

Lasker:

No, Mike Gorman got Reutershan and Reutershan got Miss Penn.





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