{"id":38435,"date":"2026-05-19T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=38435"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:10:06","slug":"article70978076-ece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=38435","title":{"rendered":"The rise of epidemiology as a discipline and the birth of hypertension as a disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until the middle of the 20th century, many physicians did not consider hypertension to be a disease requiring active treatment. It took decades of scientific research for it to emerge as a major independent cardiovascular risk factor<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/the-rise-of-epidemiology-as-a-discipline-and-the-birth-of-hypertension-as-a-disease\/article70978076.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.thehindu.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until the middle of the 20th century, many physicians did not consider hypertension to be a disease requiring active treatment. It took decades of scientific research for it to emerge as a major independent cardiovascular risk factor Source: www.thehindu.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[12351,19297,2226,2101,5099,10522],"class_list":["post-38435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-birth","tag-discipline","tag-disease","tag-epidemiology","tag-hypertension","tag-rise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38437,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38435\/revisions\/38437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}