Abstract
Knowledge of cardiac, renal and vascular injuries that occur in Arterial Hypertension has been known for a long time, however, their correlation with high blood pressure levels can only occur after the dissemination of the measure developed by Riva-Rocci and perfected by Korotkoff at the beginning of the 20th century. This correlation was initially imagined with false assumptions, which led not only to inertia but also to an opposition to the decrease in blood pressure levels that lasted around five decades. These false assumptions are named and analyzed. Even after the definition that the drop in blood pressure levels should be an obligatory part of the treatment of this condition, other erroneous understandings of this pathology have continued to occur until today. In this review, which covers the last one hundred and thirty years, we found, enumerated and analyzed seven of these errors based on the current knowledge we have gained on Arterial Hypertension and exposed their differences, simulating a game of seven errors.
The aim of Science is not to open a door to endless wisdom, but to put a limit on endless error.
Bertold Brecht: The Life of Galileo