Asensio, Stanley H.2014-12-222014-12-2219511951b14735027https://hdl.handle.net/2144/10331Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityHypertension is a disease having a high death incidence. Hypertensive conditions have been classified as symptomatic, essential and renal. Symptomatic hypertension includes psychological high blood pressure due to emotional disturbances, cerebral hypertension, cardiovascular, and endocrinal hypertension due to abnormal functioning of pituitary and adrenal glands. [TRUNCATED]en-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions.Thesis/Dissertation