Hypertension, a modern epidemic

The insalubrity is one of the characteristics which, hundreds of years and several social formations afterwards, had given shape to the popular image of the Middle Age period. In some cases over-measured, turned into legend in other cases even distorted, the great epidemics of the first half of the last millennium paralyze the contemporaneous man due to the overwhelming death statistics and the simple prophylactic measures to prevent them, unknown by then.  Click here for full article.