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Article: Blood pressure and age in cross-cultural perspective
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- Human Biology
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Wayne State University Press Aug 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract Studies in traditional, nonindustrialized countries have shown that blood pressure need not increase with age in adulthood, although incremental age-related increases in blood pressure throughout adulthood are common in industrialized countries. This observation has influenced a statement by the 1997 Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure that a major future challenge is to "prevent the rise of blood pressure with age." The methods of preventing age-related blood pressure increases are not specified in the report. Anthropological surveys of populations with little or no change in blood pressure with ...