T^E BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1977
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igh blood pressure surveyed
United Press International
KANSAS CITY — A number of
nericans of all ages suffer from
jfh blood pressure but don’t know
jlf unfound and untreated, high
pressure, also called hyper-
sion, can lead to strokes, heart
acks and other serious problems.
|A recent public screening pro-
m, conducted by University of
jisas Medical Center’s Depart-
^nt of Community Health, under-
ed the extent of the problem.
8Doctors set up a booth at the
frown Center Hotel in Kansas City,
Mo., and checked the blood pres-
d l pire of people walking by. Of the 440
ere:Arsons who volunteered, 98 — al-
ist one in four — had abnormally
h blood pressure. Only two of
ngtoBery 10 who had high blood pres-
etlkjure knew it.
Ilhe exhibition also showed that
ngtoBgh blood pressure is not limited to
attafte middle-aged and the elderly.
bittern
ty .
b real I
isons
nbeJ
Four of the high blood pressure
group were teenagers, 20 were in
their 20s, and 17 in their 30s.
The American Heart Association
estimates that nationally, 23 million
adults suffer from some degree of
hypertension and 10 million of those
are unaware of it.
Dr. Larry Baker, assistant profes
sor of community health at Kansas
University, said those who had high
blood pressure in the public screen
ing were urged to go to their private
physicians and have it checked
again.
“One abnormal reading doesn’t
mean they have hypertension,’’
Baker said, “it needs to be
documented by their own doctors.
A lot is known about the disease:
who has a good chance of developing
it and how it can be treated before it
becomes a serious heart problem.
But the cause of most hypertension.
Baker said, is “idiopathic, meaning
we don’t know the cause.’’
exas industrial arts
\roup to meet at Ai?M
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inal)lfl^ ore t * lan industrial arts
poiyjpichers and members of the Texas
ling.
Idustrial Arts Association will con-
re i«# r S e on Texas A&M University
rlyJfeb. 24-26 for their annual state
an jjjleeti n g and teacher conference.
Featured speaker at the assembly
be Dr. Walter C. Brown, as-
iciate director of Arizona State
iversity’s division of technology
Id past president of the American
Industrial Arts Association.
His public presentation is at 7
Feb. 25.
A consulting editor for Good-
art-Willcox Technical Publishers,
own just served two years as pres-:
:nt of the American Council on
lustrial Arts Teacher Education
d was the 1976 winner of the
location Exhibitors Association
Rstinguished Service Award.
iBrown’s topic will be “Pursuit of
Excellence in Industrial Arts:
Teaching Technology for the Fu
ture.”
Other conference highlights in
clude a Feb. 26 awards luncheon at
which outstanding teaching and dis
tinguished service are recognized.
Small group meetings will allow
members to attend four of six con
current sessions dealing with the
industrial members to attend four of
six concurrent sessions dealing with
industrial arts curriculum.
Forty commercial exhibitors will
also set up displays in Rudder To
wer.
The conference will also include
business meetings of the TIAA, TIA
Student Association, Texas Col
legiate IAA, Texas Council of Indus
trial Arts Supervisors and Texas
Council on Industrial Arts Teacher
Education.
Itudents to apply after mid-term
$200 in loans available
to seniors at 5% interest
Loans for up to $200 will be avail-
!e to graduating seniors a week
fore graduation, said Alvin Bor-
mn of the Student Financial Aid
fice.
The loans are for students who
have financial problems after
aduation. Applicants must com-
;te forms, give the name and ad-
ess of their employer after gradu-
onand give an estimated income.
The applicants are also inter-
wed by Bormann, director of the
locating loan program,
and,b “Of those applying, 99.9 per cent
be granted a loan,” Bormann
orgottei
was)
The short-term loans must be
paid within 12 months at five per
cent interest. However, there is no
fixed payment date each month or
determined amount for each pay
ment.
Other loan companies in Bryan-
College Station charge at least ten
per cent interest or require the ap
plicant to be employed at the time
they request a loan.
‘We will grant a loan to anyone
unless they have a bad credit rating
and as long as we have sufficient
funds,” Bormann said.
Applications will be ready in the
YMCA 303 after mid-term or as
soon as the registrar has completed
a graduation roster.
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The risk of hypertension is related
to family history: if an uncle or a
parent, especially both parents,
have high blood pressure, the
chance of developing it is much
higher. But Baker emphasized that
does not mean the disease is inher
ited through the genes; medical re
searchers simply don’t know.
Risk rises steadily with age and
also rises if you put on weight, even if
you are thin as a rail while in your
teens and only put on 20 pounds in
middle age.
“Both those who are lean in youth
and those obese in youth, the greater
the weight gain in middle age, the
more the tendency to high blood
pressure,” Baker said.
Correspondingly, one of the most
effective cures is to lose weight.
Sex and race also make a differ-
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ence, especially race. Males have a
slightly higher risk than females, and
blacks have about twice the risk as
whites. Baker said hypertension in
blacks also tends to be more severe.
A recent national health survey
provided an illustration. For the
25-34 age group, 3.7 per cent of the
white males tested had high blood
pressure and 2.3 per cent of the
white females had it.
Dedication ceremonies
held for new Center
LUBBOCK (UPI) — Newsman
Hughes Rudd will keynote the ded
ication ceremonies for the city’s new
$14 million Memorial Civic Center
March 3.
Rudd is the anchorman for the
CBS Morning News.
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