Table 1.
Charactistics and cause of death
| Young patients | Old non-hypertensive pat. | Old hypertensive patients | |||||||||
| No | Age | Cause of death | Sex | No | Age | Cause of death | Sex | No | Age | Cause of death | Sex |
| 1 | 40 | Bronchial carcinoma | f | 12 | 68 | Lung embolism | f | 20 | 81 | Gastric hemorrhage | f |
| 2 | 37 | Malignant melanoma | f | 13 | 67 | Lymphoma | F | 21 | 70 | Pneumonia | f |
| 3 | 27 | Lung embolism | f | 14 | 82 | Mamma-carcinoma | f | 22 | 77 | Peritonitis | f |
| 4 | 42 | Leukemia | f | 15 | 71 | Lymphoma | F | 23 | 74 | Resp. insufficiency | m |
| 5 | 34 | HIV | f | 16 | 77 | Liver cirrhosis | f | 24 | 72 | Bypass surgery | m |
| 6 | 40 | Bronchial carcinoma | f | 17 | 72 | Heart-lung insuff. | m | 25 | 74 | Hepatorenal syndr. | m |
| 7 | 30 | Aplastic anemia | f | 18 | 74 | Sigmoid-carcinoma | m | 26 | 76 | Sigmoid-carcinoma | f |
| 8 | 47 | Leukemia | m | 19 | 74 | Stomach-carcinoma | m | 27 | 73 | Plasmacytoma | f |
| 9 | 44 | Aortic aneurysm | m | ||||||||
| 10 | 49 | Hodgkin' disease | m | ||||||||
| 11 | 37 | Leukemia | f | ||||||||