title: Hypertension and mortality.
abstract: A new model for ranking of the combined mortality-effect of systolic and diastolic blood pressure in relation to age is described. The ranking allows continuous comparison of arbitrary blood pressures and making a percentile distribution of the risk according to the distribution of the population with respect to blood pressure and age. The model suggests new ways of attacking the problems of hypertension in man which are briefly introduced. It is suggested that systolic (Ps) and diastolic (Pd) blood pressure are converted to the biological effective blood pressure (Pe) by: Pe = 0.45Ps + 0.55Pd.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001795:Blood Pressure Determination; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008954:Models, Biological