Show Your Health And You j EDITOR'S The following is one of n series of articles furnished by the Utah State Medical Association and published in cooperation with your local These articles are scheduled to appear every other week throughout the year in an effort to better acquaint you with problems of and designed to Improve the well-being of the people of BLOOD PRESSURE Physicians use the term to describe the force at which one's blood circulates through the body's arteries and This force is determined by the of the heart and the the blood Blood pressure is referred to in one of three or Lower than normal blood pressure is probably of less importance than physicians once believed and it is usually related to some specific Although one hears people saying the reason that they're tired is blood the complaint should really be directed j against the illness that produced the lowered There are many factors which may cause high blood for hardening of the changes in the body's chemical kidney tumors of the adrenal abnormal connections between arteries and heredity to play its part in cases of ing blood pressure the con-j seems to in Another factor is emotion in certain produces an excessive lifting of All of us raise our blood pressure when we become angry or afraid and this is quite In blood goes up to higher levels than average and tends to stay at an level for a longer Often this reaction is In response to a very simple who respond emotionally in this manner are good candidates for blood The symptoms of high blood pressure are quite It is quite common for a person to go for years showing any visible changes in his normal health other many patients consult doctors for dizziness or headaches which they blame on blood Very they are There are a number of instruments doctors use to determine whether blood pressure is In some we make our diagnosis on the of changes which can be seen in the blood vessels of the in the disease will show up in changes in the content of the If allowed to continue high blood pressure can damage a number of organs of the most the and today's physicians at their service a large body of drugs and knowledge which can control and check cases of high pres- |