Online blood pressure lab

Blood Pressure - teresa kaiser (teresa_kaiser1@hotmail.com)
State a problem about the relationship of age and gender to blood pressure.
Well it seems to be the older you get and if you are a male the better chance there is that you have a blood pressure problem.

Use your knowledge about the heart and the circulatory system to make a hypothesis about how the average blood pressure for a group of people would be affected by manipulating the age and gender of the group members.
I compared age group 25-34 and the average males bp is 131/81 and the average females bp is 116/76. Males are naturally at a higher risk for high blood pressure.

How will you use the investigation screen to test your hypothesis? What steps will you follow? What data will you record?
I will compare females bp to males bp of all different ages. And also look up to see if there is a family history.

Analyze the result of your experiment. Explain any patterns you observed.
the older the males got the more of them had higher blood pressures.
Did the result of your experiment support your hypothesis? Why or why not? Based on your experiment what conclusion can you draw about the relationship of age and gender to group blood pressure averages?
yes

During the course of your experiment, did you obtain any blood pressure reading that were outside of the normal range for the group being tested? What did you notice on the medical charts for these individuals that might explain their high reading?
they had a family history of blood pressure problems, bad diet, no exercise

List risk factors associated with the hypertension. Based on your observation, which risk factor do you think is most closely associated with hypertension?
overweight, diet, alcohol use.

What effect might obesity have on blood pressure? Does obesity alone cause a person to be at risk for high blood pressure? What other factors, in combination with obesity, might increase a person's risk for high blood pressure?
it can but other factors just increase the risk.


Blood Pressure -
Table


Blood Pressure -
Table

male 11-17
113
73
female 11-17
113
73
male 18-24
126
79
female 18-24
112
72
male 25-34
131
81
female 25-34
116
76
male 35-44
130
82
female 35-44
121
77
male 45-54
136
85
female 45-54
129
78

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