At a young age people tend to not have high blood pressure but as they get older it rises. I could be genetic but from the study it seem more of a life style. Today many young folks are not pushed enough to the healthy society because there are many fast food joints, a lot of junk food inventions and television. Many tend not to exercise that could lower their blood pressure as they get older.
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 hypothesis the a group of men and women get high blood pressure as they get older because of their lifestyle.
How will you use the investigation screen to test your hypothesis? What steps will you follow? What data will you record?
I will test the blood pressure of both men and women starting at a young age to adults. Step by step I will record their blood pressure and make a note of the people who do have high blood pressure. I will record if they have a family history of hypertension and whether or not they exercise.
Analyze the result of your experiment. Explain any patterns you observed.
The study with female showed that as they get older the blood pressure does rise. Two girls age 18-24 had a history of hypertension and both had high blood pressure. Some of the other women who also had blood pressure or were at risk did not exercise and were overweight for their height.
The male also had higher blood pressure, as they got older. Some of them that did have high blood pressure had a high salt diet, were overweight or drank alcohol.
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 some of the men and women proved that its lifestyle that can raise their blood pressure. Most men and women were overweight and had high blood pressure. Also the men in the study had a high salt diet that is high in sodium that can increase your blood pressure.
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?
I noticed that some of the men/women had high blood pressure but had a family history of hypertension. Some of the drank alcohol and had high blood pressure and some did not. So it might have to do with their family history of hypertension or lifestyle, how well they take care of themselves.
List risk factors associated with the hypertension. Based on your observation, which risk factor do you think is most closely associated with hypertension?
Weight is associated with hypertension and lifestyle, what we eat, how well we take care of ourselves. Having a high salt diet can increase the chances of having high blood pressure. Another thing that can increase blood pressure is emotions.
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?
Obesity has a huge effect on having high blood pressure. Obesity also has a risk of diabetes. No I don’t believe that being obesity alone can put a person at risk. If a person had a history of hypertension and is obesity then I would say yes, they are at risk.
There are other factors that can raise the chances like, age, race, lifestyle, weight and family health history.
the results of men and women age 11-54 years old, blood pressure
The graph shows the results of both gender's blood pressure, it shows it rising as each gender age.
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