BP (was: : Salt consumption)

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Isn't your diastolic BP number on the high side? The cutoff point is around 90. My BP is not terribly low either but my diastolic number is very low. (Mine runs anywhere from 125/70 to 110/62 depending on time of day - seems to be much lower at night). OTOH systolic pressure is more important as one gets older.

Although my BP is not as low as many Cronies, I'm satisfied that I don't need meds. Out of an original family of 5 I'm the only one who didn't get very high BP (so far).

on 7/25/2005 11:11 PM, citpeks at citpeks@... wrote:

I can eat a low salt diet when I work in air-conditioned comfort, but

I need salt when I sweat. It has been like this since I was young,

and it will probably will be like this until I die. I don't think

that anybody can be trained not to sweat. By the way, my BP is around

116/83 with a pulse of 59 when I get up in the morning.

Tony