Blood Pressure Lab

1.State a problem about the relationship of age and gender to blood pressure. Well typically men tend to have higher blood pressure than women and also younger people do not have the high blood pressure that older people do.

2.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. As I stated in the previous question, the younger the generation typically have lower blood pressure and the men generally have higher blood pressure. There are factors though that can change this up some and they would be things like smokers and drinkers, also high stress.

3.How will you use the investigation screen to test your hypothesis? What steps will you follow? What data will you record?*After taking an average blood pressure of the two genders and the differnt age ranges, I can look for the blood pressure that is not in the mormal range then I can look to find out why that is.Then it is possible to record the numbers of the different genders and age groups.

4.Analyze the result of your experiment. Explain any patterns you observed.After observing all the different age groups and the genders, I have found that the younger generations typically have the lower blood pressure unless they had the familt history of obesity, smoking, drinking, and stresses.

5.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 of my experiments does support my hypothesis. I can conclude that younger poeple have lower blood pressure and men generally have higher blood pressure.

6.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? Yes there were a few that were out of the norm and in their charts were things like drinking, smoking, family history and obesity that would cause these higher numbers.

7.List risk factors associated with the hypertension. Based on your observation, which risk factor do you think is most closely associated with hypertension?Some of the risk factors of hypertension are gender, drinking, smoking, age, family history and obesity. In my opinion there is not just one of these things that is a higher risk than another hypertension is bad no matter what causes it.

8.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? Well with obesity comes a poor diet. The fact that obestity is a major factor on blood pressure it usually is not the only risk that causes the high blood pressure. There are other things such as the smoking and drinking or drugs that can also go with obesity that can raise your blood pressure.