Follow the virtual lab procedure, and answer the questions below. Answer in complete sentences. Please leave spaces between questions and your answers.
- What factors are known to cause increases in blood pressure?
Lack of exercise, a high-salt diet, family history, and alcohol consumption are factors known to cause an increase in blood pressure.
- 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.
Many younger children, ages 11-17, do not drink therefore their alcohol consumption is very low or nothing. Because of this, their blood pressure would be lower than men of age group 25-44 because they drink more. Also students males and females, ages 18-24, might eat a greater amount of high sodium foods and drink more alcohol therefore causing high blood pressure.
- What sorts of problems might a person develop who has chronic hypertension?
People with chronic hypertension may develop coronary artery disease; congestive heart failure; kidney failure; aneurysm; stroke or other health problems.
- Analyze the result of your experiment. Explain any patterns you observed.
I observed that men in the 35-54 age category are in the highest risk for hypertension. There were four out of the ten men who had high risk of hypertension, all with various clear indicators as reasons for a high blood pressure. One guy checked for alcohol consumption and lack of exercise. One guy checked for high salt diet and another had a family history of hypertension ( the age range seems reasonable as this is the most likeliest time for genetic conditions to take affect, show symptoms.) In the 45-54 age range, half the men had a high risk for hypertension and two guys had all of the indicators checked. On the other hand, only three women age range 35-54 had high risk for hypertension.
- 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?
The results did not support my hypothesis that students males and females, ages 18-24, eat a greater amount of high sodium foods and drink more alcohol therefore causing high blood pressure. The older one gets the higher at risk he/she is for getting high blood pressure and it is most common in older males. Bad decisions made as students affect you when you get older and still maintain a lifestyle of bad choices.
- 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?
There was only one female, age range 18-24 with a blood pressure of 135/95 because she checked for high sodium diet and alcohol consumption.
- List risk factors associated with the hypertension. Based on your observation, which risk factor do you think is most closely associated with hypertension?
Based on my results those who checked for high sodium diets had higher blood pressure, which is why I believe that is the greatest risk factor that is most closely associated with hypertension.
- 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?
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