Antonio Caso: Philosopher of Mexico

Prevalence of hypertension in Mexico City and San Antonio, Texas.

BACKGROUND Few data are available on the prevalence of hypertension in Mexico. METHODS AND RESULTS We compared the prevalence of mild hypertension (systolic blood pressure > or = 140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure > or = 90 mm Hg and/or use of antihypertensive medications) in 1500 low-income Mexican Americans who participated in the San Antonio Heart Study and 2280 low-income Mexicans ...

Elevated incidence of type 2 diabetes in San Antonio, Texas, compared with that of Mexico City, Mexico.

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of type 2 diabetes between low-income Mexican-Americans residing in San Antonio, Texas, and low-income residents in Mexico City, Mexico. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Using data from the San Antonio Heart Study and the Mexico City Diabetes Study, we compared the incidence of type 2 diabetes in 35- to 64-year-old low-income Mexican-American residents of San Ant...

Thomas Young, Natural Philosopher

Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

Joseph Priestley, natural philosopher.

In this two hundredth anniversary year of his death, we are met to celebrate the life and career of Joseph Priestley—and most of us celebrate the wrong man, for the wrong reasons. We celebrate the pneumatic chemist who, in a flurry of random experiments made over a period of five years, isolated and partially identified nine new gases, including oxygen—and the man who spent roughly five times a...

Newton as Philosopher