A third study, started about 30 years ago and still ongoing, is looking at dietary factors other than salt, such as animal protein, that ...
A third study, started about 30 years ago and still ongoing, is looking at dietary factors other than salt, such as animal protein, that contribute to high blood pressure.
“I remember there were criticisms that he was an older man in the 70s, and could he complete the five years of the project”, Dr Philip Greenland, a professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern, said in an interview. “Then he had several renewals of the grant application, and at the last renewal he was 95 years old.”
Jeremiah Stamler was born October 27, 1919, in Brooklyn and grew up in West Orange, NJ His parents – George Stamler, a dentist, and Rose (Baras) Stamler, a teacher – had immigrated from Russia.
After earning a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, he earned his medical degree from Long Island College of Medicine (now SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University) in Brooklyn in 1943 and was an intern at Kings County Hospital Center, also in Brooklyn. He served in the military in Bermuda as a radiologist before beginning his career at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, where he worked with Dr. Louis Katz, a leading cardiology researcher.
“Dr. Katz said to me, ‘Why the hell do you want to do research?'” Dr. Stamler told The Tribune. people say, “I don’t believe it. Then you do more research and you check it out and they’ll say, ‘Yeah, but. …’ Then you do more research, you check it out more, and they’ll say: “I knew it all the time.” And he was right.
In the late 1950s, Dr. Stamler joined the Chicago Board of Health and Northwestern as a part-time assistant professor of medicine. In 1965, while director of the board’s heart disease control program, he was subpoenaed to testify by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Accused of being part of a Communist Party underground in the 1950s, he refused to testify or take the Fifth Amendment, as did many other witnesses. Instead, he made a statement saying he was a loyal American.
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