Simultaneous discovery led to drugs for blood pressure, heart disease

Harold Smulyan, MD Harold Smulyan, MD (photo by Jim Howe) (photo by
Jim Howe) A widely prescribed type of drug used to treat high blood
pressure and congestive heart failure was made possible by a
discovery from almost a century ago. The substance eventually named
angiotensin was first identified in the late 1930s by doctors
working independently of each other in the United States and
Argentina, who didn't agree on what to name the substance for
several years. A widely prescribed type of drug used to treat high
blood pressure and congestive heart failure was made possible by a
discovery from almost a century ago. The substance eventually named
angiotensin was first identified in the late 1930s by doctors
working independently of each other in the United States and
Argentina, who didn't agree on what to name the substance for
several years. Harold Smulyan, MD, Harold Smulyan, MD, Upstate
emeritus professor of medicine in cardiology, describes the
discovery and how later research led to today‘s ACE inhibitor drugs
(ACE standing for angiotensin-converting enzyme). Upstate emeritus
professor of medicine in cardiology, describes the discovery and
how later research led to today‘s ACE inhibitor drugs (ACE standing
for angiotensin-converting enzyme).