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Show Tivo Hinds Of Hypertension By DR. HAROLD B. LIGON If you have been reading the last few Doctor Talk columns you know that the subject has been high blood pressure, or hypertension. UK'VE STATU) thai there are ten to twenty million people peo-ple in America with untreated high blood pressure! Since half of our cardiovascular cardiovas-cular deaths are caused by hypertension, there is little ' wonder that the Joint National i Committee on Detention. Evaluation Eva-luation and I real menl of High ' Blood Pressure has as its lop priority the urgent mission to bring these miliums of hypertensives hyper-tensives under medical management. man-agement. IIIKKK ARK basically two kinds of hperteiisiin: primary prim-ary and secondary. Our discussions dis-cussions generally confine themselves to piim.ux hypertension, hyper-tension, since appioMinalck 'l percent of all cases aie l that lpe. iSecomlaix In per-tension per-tension is the cIis.iIi.mi ol blmid piessuie due to inula-Iving inula-Iving physical coikIiiixmn some ol which can be . uud I We hae disused -iolic and diastolic icadmc I lie upper and lower iiinnK i ic spectively nmni.il H.mhI pressure m an aduli i l.o mi At I I VI l NIK noimal systolic range is from 1 10 to 14(1. I he normal diastolic range is from "Hi to 'Ml. I he Joint Committee has chose the diastolic pressure as the basis for diagnosing the presence of hypertension. Primary hypertension is classified as mild, moderate, and severe with the following diastolic values: Mild 'MM04 nun of Mercurv . Moderate 1(15-114 mm of Mercury. Se- |