Blood Pressure Lab

Journal question 1
As a person gets older, the risk of high blood pressure is greater. Men have a slightly greater risk than females.

Journal question 2
If the majority of the people in a group are older, or more are males, the average blood pressure for the group would be higher than if the group was younger and consisted of more females.

Journal question 3
I will first go through and test all the age ranges for the females, finding the average systolic and diastolic pressures. I will then repeat the process for the males, and chart my findings.

Journal question 4
The pattern I observed was that the average systolic and diastolic blood pressure incresed with age, especially in the males. The female's varied more, but the risk of high blood pressure was still the greatest in the oldest age group.

Journal question 5
The result of my experiment clearly supported my hypothesis. The risk of high blood pressure increased with age, and the average for the males was higher than the females.

Journal question 6
Poor diet, alcohol consumption, lack of exercise, and family history usually played a factor in the people that were outside the normal range. People that were overweight also had higher blood pressure

Journal question 7
family history, high salt diet, lack of exercise, alcohol consumption. I think a high salt diet is most closely observed with hypertension.

Journal question 8
Obesity alone does not cause a person to be at risk for high blood pressure. A person's diet and activity level can play a part in adding to the person's risk.
Table
For some reason, blogger is giving me trouble tonight - I will post my table and graph as soon as it will let me