Show Daily Health Service Ri Rising ing Blood Pressure Serious From 4 40 to 49 I By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Blood pressure is a condition and not lot a disease Everyone has hilS some blood pressure exactly as everyone has las some temperature temperature however however not everyone has a fever fe so also not ev cv everyone has either high or low blood pressure t j It Itis Jis only when the blood pressure J is approximately high in relationship to the general condition of the person person per per- sOn son concerned or abnormally low that it requires medical attention There are now numerous devices for recording the blood pressure accurately accurately ac as and any competent physician can make measurements It used to tobe tobe tobe be thought that a blood blood pressure of plus the age of the person concerned concerned con con- could be considered a a normal blood pressure It is now coming t to tobe tobe be thought that a more accurate II standard will vill be plus one half the age for the s systolic pressure and 75 plus one fourth of the age for tor the diastolic pressure Those figures are of course somewhat somewhat some what low whereas the former standards stand standards ards were probably somewhat high In general it is thought that a variation of 15 above or or below these figures is within reasonable limits for lor the systolic pressure and 10 above or below for lor forte the diastolic pressure Now Dr Maurice Campbell points out that variations of 15 per cen cent parity are not extraordinary Inci in weight height or intellectual ca ca- ca dentally a series of determinations o of blood pressure showed the lowest average figures in a serIes of prisoners prison ers in an American prison Presumably Presumably ably they led a life lite without strain or tension and this is reflected in their blood pressure presure In In fact the blood pressure of the wardens am and guards was on an average above that tha of the prisoners When the systolic pressure Is fg low compared with the diastolic the likelihood like of or heart failure is more able A gradual increase in blood pr pressure is more important at the ages of 40 to 49 than at any other periods of life lite and certainly much more serious than arises in older perso persons s. s |