Physiology and Pharmacology

en Study of the level of blood pressure in subjects older than eighteen years in Mashhad Experimental research article Experimental research article MH Boskabadi1, M Emadzadeh1, A Hassanzadeh1, N Salimi1 and S Hajizadeh21. Dept. Physiology, Mashhad Univ. Med. Sci., Mashhad, Iran.2. Dept. Physiology, Tarbiat Modares Univ., Tehran, Iran.Abstract:It is known that ethnical and genetic factors influence the blood pressure (BP). Therefore, determination of highblood pressure is depending on normal blood pressure of different ethnics. Keywords: Blood pressure, MashhadIn the present study BP of 704 randomly selected subjects aged 18 year and over including 336 male and 368female were measured in the city of Mashhad.The results showed that in the studied population, systolic (S), diastolic (D), and mean (M) BP were 125.44±17.83,82.67±12.05, and 96.93±12.72 mmHg respectively. SBP, DBP and MBP in female subjects were significantlylower than male subjects (p<0.001 for all cases). There were significant positive correlation between SBP, DBP,and MBP with both age and body mass index (BMI). However, there was not any correlation between bloodpressure and degree of exercise habit among studied population. The distribution of hypertension in populationof the city of Mashhad was different with those of rarely reported for some other cities of Iran and also someother countries. Some of these differences seemed to be statistically significant. 20.9% of the studied populationhad hypertension, which were divided into isolated systolic hypertension (5.8%), isolated diastolic hypertension(7.1%) and both (8%).The results of these studies showed the distribution of blood pressure and hypertension among a randomly selectedpopulation of the city of Mashhad. 195 202 http://ppj.phypha.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-23&slc_lang=en&sid=1