"Normal" blood pressure in chimpanzees.
During routine physical examination under ketamine sedation, 140 blood pressure measurements from male and 170 from female chimpanzees were derived over a period of 3 yr. Statistical analysis revealed generally no differences between the sexes but significant increases of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure with increasing age. The data obtained may constitute a useful management tool with which to identify hypertensive chimpanzees and suggests that this animal species could be a model for hypertension research.
Department of Virology and Immunology, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX.
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D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D002679:Pan troglodytes / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D012727:Sex Characteristics