RW> Hmmmm. My dad used to just lie down after taking two aspirin...
 
That would probably work, but sometimes I can't do that.
 
RW> I think she got it wrong. Twice your age/2... 60yo = 120/60 or 70yo =
RW> 140/70, but I've seen elderly oriental people at the BP machine with
RW> 80/40bp...rice and fish diet...
 
That was a long time ago and scientific calculations of that era have been
swept away by new data.  The info I saw (I thought I was going to see a
chart for all age and height groups) had the simple explanation of
calculating it by taking 220 and subtracting my age, which would be near to
140.  The problem I encountered was that most of the sites didn't take into
account the height of the individual and those that did produced an
unreadable chart, at least to me.
 
RW> Both sides of my family have had a history of one thing or another. My
RW> brother got the strokes from the Witts and my sister got the diabetes
RW> from my mother's family...I'm somewhere inbetween with different
RW> problems.
 
My maternal grandmother had a stroke or two before she died.  No strokes on
my father's side of the family and my late brother didn't die from one and
my sister in FL has yet to have one, so I suppose that genetic wasn't
passed on to us.  We have bunions, though.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

... Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses.

--- D'Bridge 3.26