In 1948, many doctors thought normal blood pressure was 100 plus your age. A study of 5,209 people in one Massachusetts town changed that
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Insurers measured blood pressure decades before Framingham. How 100 plus your age gave way to 130/80, and why the same reading still means different things."No practitioner of medicine should be without a sphygmomanometer."
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Deeb SalemDaniel LevyGeorge ComstockRoss McintireDavid RutsteinPaul Dudley WhiteAmerican Academy Of Family PhysiciansNorthwestern MutualAssociation Of Life Insurance Medical DirectorsNational CommitteeAmerican College Of CardiologyNorthwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyNational Library Of MedicineAmerican Heart AssociationUs Public Health ServiceHistory OfficeHarvard Department Of The History Of ScienceGeorgia, United StatesAmericanBoston, Massachusetts, United States
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"No practitioner of medicine should be without a sphygmomanometer."