抄録
We investigated on the body types of 454 cases of hypertension and as the control 378 cases of various kinds of patients over 35 years old (excepting tuberculosis and cancer) who showed normal blood pressure. And following results were gained. 1) The patients suffering from hypertension have no characteristic body type, for instance appoplectic habit. The distribution of the body type of hypertension does not essentially differ from that of the control. And yet, as far the patients of hypertension there are a little more of the picnic type than the control, and a little less of the leptosomatic type. 2) The male patients of the essential hypertension are larger physical constitution and more nourished than those of renal hypertension. From the distribution of the body type there are more of the picnic type and less of the leptosomatic type, when we compare the former with the latter. In case of the essential hypertension are shorter of stature ond more of the picnic type than those of the renal hypertension. 3) When we compare the distribution of the body type of hereditary hypertension with that of non hereditary hypertension, it is found that the former has more the picnic type than the latter in case of male, but in female, on the contrary, the former has less of picnic type and more of leptrsomatic type than the latter. As related above, there are not so many of picnic type as believed generally up to this time.
