Posted on 03/10/2014 6:59:25 PM PDT by neverdem
Ha! The coincidence is undeniable!
Was it the drugs or the exercise regimen that reduced your blood pressure?
Are you saying that blood pressure moves up normally/naturally with age?
There was another factor...moving from a 'blue state' or a 'blue region' like Soviet Red England to a 'red state/region' can lower your blood pressure, as well. :-)
I expect mine to drop twenty points on both ends when I leave Red Hampshire for Tennessee. The daily feeling of nausea in the pit of my stomach will disappear, as well.
Drugs...
Still looking at other factors. This runs in my family though.
Man, looking back in hindsight I don’t know if Kentucky is better than Tennessee or vice versa. Both has it’s benefits and both are far better than living in a blue state.
Amen...either Kentucky or Tennessee are far better than any damn ‘blue state’.
In young people, when the heart pumps, they “balloon” up and then, like a balloon losing air, go back to normal size. This keeps the average pressure higher.
But in the elderly, their blood vessels are stiff, and don't balloon up and down... so you need a higher top number to keep the average pressure good enough to keep the blood going to the brain. Lower the pressure too much, and they stand up and faint, or don't get enough blood to their brain and turn “senile”.
On the other hand, if it gets too high you are also at risk of blowing out the stiff blood vessels. So you don't want the top number too high.
For awhile, there was a push to get everyone down to 120 top number. That was too low for many people. Now it looks like they won't try to get it lower than 140 in the older folks.
And all of this is why people argue if you should go by the top number, bottom number, or average. The answer: All three...it depends.
To complicate things more: a thin young pregnant girl can have severe high blood pressure/toxemia problems if her pressure is 120/100.
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