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Profit taking pushes
average back down
United Press International
NEW YORK — Wall Street’s
powerhouse rally ran into profit
taking today that pushed the
Dow Jones industrial average
down from a l7'/2-month high
but left it above the 1,000 level.
Trading was heavy.
Despite some early selling,
brokers predicted the market
would meet the challenge as
long as interest rates continue to
decline.
The average, w'hich climbed
11.4 points Wednesday, was off
4.41 to 1,010.67 at 11:30 a.m.
EDT. Wednesday’s close of
1,015.08 was the highest since it
finished at 1,016.93 on April 28,
1981.
The closely watched average,
which soared through the 1,000
level for the first time in 15
months Monday, had risen
238.16 points since the rallv be
gan Aug. 13 and 111.47 over the
previous seven sessions.
Many analysts predicted the
Dow will challenge its all-time
high of 1,051.70 set on Jan. 11,
1973, if it can establish 1,000 as a
floor.
Doctors to test public for herpes
United Press International
ATLANTA — Thousands of
people nationwide will join one
of the largw| studies ever of
genital herj* in an effort to
find out wfeo has the painful, re
curring viral ailment and who is
likely to catch it, researchers say.
The live-year investigation
by 35 medical detectives will be
funded by a $ 1.78 million grant
from the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases
— the largest grant ever made
by the institute.
Researchers said the main
goal of the study announced
Wednesday is to determine who
is most susceptible to genital
herpes and the extent of the sex
ually transmitted disease.
“At the end of the study we
should know which people are
most likely to have herpes — and
have a clearer idea of how many
of them do," said Dr. Andre
Nahmias, professor of pediat
rics and chief of infectious dis
eases and immunology at the
Emory University School of
Medicine.
Genital herpes is a highly
contagious viral infection that
occurs around the sexual
organs, manifested by painful
blisters. No cure has been found
for it.
Medical authorities agree the
disease has reached epidemic
proportions in this country but
disagree on its prevalence. Esti
mates range from 4 million to 20
million cases. The NIAID places
the figure at 5 million, with
300,000 new cases added each
year.
Nahmias is considered one of
the world’s leading authorities
on the disease and has been
working for years to develop a
vaccine for the ailment. In addi
tion to 20 investigators from
Emory, the study will involve 15
researchers from the national
Centers for Disease Control, the
University of South Carolina
and the state health depart
ments of Ohio and California.
Nahmias said part of the
study will look at the distribution
of genital herpes cases. Blood
studies wall be performed on
samples of the national popula
tion to determine how wide
spread the disease actually is.
Dr. Harry Keyserling, a col
league of Nahmias’, said the
study has many objectives, in
cluding looking at individuals
infected for the first time to de
termine how many do not have
clinical symptoms of the disease.
“Many people don’t have any
symptoms,” he said. “That’s
something most people are not
aware of. That’s scary because
they can shed the virus and don’t
even know they have it.
“We hope to find out if that is
a significant reservoir of poten
tial infection or a very minor
one.”
Smaller but more involved
studies will look specifically at
certain groups of people —
5,000 members of a health
maintenance organization in the
Atlanta area, 800 students at the
University of South Carolina in
Columbia and more than 1,000
pregnant women.
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United Press International
BOSTON — Many of the 32
million Americans with high
blood pressure may be increas
ing their risk of fatal strokes or
heart disease by ignoring mild
hypertension in the early stages,
government researchers said
Thursday.
A five-year study showed pa
tients with mildly elevated dias
tolic blood pressure levels put on
a program of diuretics and
Wood-pressure drugs had a 20
percent lower death rate than
patients referred to their private
jloctors, who often do not treat
mild hypertension.
I “Therefore, any attempt to
Reduce substantially excess mor-
Jality from cardiovascular dis-
<ase due to elevated diastolic
ilood pressure must include
Emphasis op the group with so-
talled miP,hypertension,” the
Rudy saicU
I The research, conducted by
Jhe National Heart, Uung and
Blood Institute in Bethesda,
Md., examined nearly 11,000
lAmericans regarded as mildly
•Jiypertensive — those with blood
sressures ranging from 90mm
•to 104mm.
i Doctors are more likely to
treat only patients with diastolic
pressures of 105mm and above,
•the study said. The diastolic
pressbre is the second, lower fi-
'gure given in a blood pressure
reading.
The researchers found pa
tients, many already suffering
heart damage, who were taking
anti-hypertensive drugs had
20.3 percent fewer deaths and
heart-related diseases during
the study.
; Those patients who had no
evidence of previous heart dam
age and were receiving no such
Small quake
wakes valley
United Press International
LOSANGEUES — A moderate
earthquake struck the Eos
Angeles’ San Fernando Valley ear
ly today, shaking residences and
Awakening slumbering occupants,
but apparently causing no
’damage.
•Dennis Meredith, a spokesman
for the California Institute of
Technology, said the temblor
measured 3.6 on the Richter
•scale and struck at 2:57 a.m. Its
.epicenter was one mile west of
.Canoga Park, a section of the
valley.
Various police divisions in the
valley received many telephone
calls from startled residents.
Lt. Jon Ainsof the Simi Valley
Police Department in suburban
Ventura County, northwest of
the valley, said: "it was a very
minor, but noticeable tremor like
we’re used to in Southern Cali
fornia.”
Startled residents were less
blase.
drugs when the study began had
28.6 percent fewer deaths.
The American Heart Associa
tion estimates 2 million Amer
icans suffer from either high
diastolic pressure or systolic
pressure — the upper figure on
a blood pressure reading. A total
of 30,600 victims died in 1979,
the most recent figures avail
able, the association said.
If doctors are to cut the death
rate of high blood pressure suf
ferers, the study said, they must
treat mild hypertensives because
most people are in that range
and, therefore, more deaths are
in that group.
“The present data suggest if
maximal reduction in mortality
is to be achieved, the goals for
anti-hypertensive therapy need
to be critically re-examined,” the
study said. “These findings sup-
port a recommendation that in
patients with mild hypertension,
treatments should be consi
dered early, before damage to
end organs occurs.”
The 10,940 people, aged 30
to 69 — recruited from 14 U.S.
cities — were divided into two
groups and followed for five
years. Half were referred to
their physicians, who were told
the patients suffered from
hypertension. Judgment on
treatment w'as left to the doctors.
The other half were treated
in five stages with diuretics and
common blood-pressure pills at
institute clinics.
The institute-monitored
group averaged blood-pressure
readings of about 4mm lower
than the referred care group at
the end of the study. But the
researchers said the difference
is significant.
“These observations indicate
the importance of small incre
ments in blood pressure in large
groups of people may not be suf
ficiently appreciated,” they said.
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