Hypertension Lab Relate and Review

1. What factors are known to cause increases in blood pressure?

Age, lack of exercise, smoking and drinking habits increases blood pressure.

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 age increases, blood pressure would increase as well. Males also seem to have higher blood pressure than females.

3. What sorts of problems might a person develop who has chronic

hypertension?

Having chronic hypertension,  can lead to heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure.

4. Analyze the result of your experiment. Explain any patterns you observed.

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?

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?

7. List risk factors associated with the hypertension. Based on your observation,

which risk factor do you think is most closely associated with hypertension?

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?