“…Obesity Obesity is statistically associated with over-average bloodpressure levels (Dublin, Fisk, and Kopf, 1925;Huber, 1927;Hartman and Ghrist, 1929;Kirk, 1931 ;Nuzum and Elliot, 1931;Short and Johnson, 1939;Robinson, Brucer, and Mass, 1940;Adlersberg, Coler, and Laval, 1946). This relation is found not only in the common forms of obesity but also in the obesity of Cushing's syndrome and in cortical hyperadrenia.…”