Edward D. Freis

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Edward David Freis (born May 13, 1912 in Chicago , Illinois , † February 1, 2005 ) was an American physician, known for clinical studies on high blood pressure .

Freis was the son of Lithuanian immigrants and graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in 1936 and medicine from Columbia University with an MD degree. After working as an intern ( internship ) at clinics in Boston , he went to the Army Air Corps and directed the laboratory at Lincoln Air Force Base from 1942 to 1944 and then the research program on rheumatic fever. After the war, he continued his professional training with a residency at Evans Memorial Hospital in Boston with Robert W. Wilkins . He turned to research on hypertension at the United States Veterans Affairs Administration (VA) in Washington, DC At the same time he taught at Georgetown University , where he was later director of the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory and head of the Hypertension Clinic. In 1949 he became Assistant Chief of the VA Medical Service and in 1953 its director. In 1959 he was promoted to Senior Medical Investigator at the VA.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Freis carried out clinical studies that demonstrated the dangers of high blood pressure , for example through an increased risk of stroke and heart failure. In 1954 he published a study on the effects of reserpine in high blood pressure patients. From 1964 to 1969, he led a five-year study (the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study on Antihypertensive Agents ) that showed that antihypertensive agents could help prevent stroke and heart disease (as well as kidney damage). It was one of the first large-scale, multi-institutional, double-blind, randomized trials in the United States. In 1971 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for this .

Fonts

  • with Gina Kolata The high blood pressure book , Sausalito: Painter Hopkins 1979
  • Contributions to John H. Moyer (Ed.) Hypertension , Saunders 1959

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freis, Recep Ari Clinical and Experimental Effects of Reserpine in Patients with Essential Hypertension , Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 59, 1954, pp. 45-53
personal data
SURNAME Freis, Edward D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freis, Edward David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2005