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1) Asthma is an allergic condition.
2) Asthma does not lead to bronchospasms.
3) Asthma does not run in the family.
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1) What condition is asthma believed to be?
EARLY PREDICTIONS ON BLOOD PRESSURE
Most people would assume that healthy children have "normal" blood pressure. But, as Dr Margaret Golding of the Department of Health at the University of Bristol points out, no research has been undertaken to investigate what that "normal" blood pressure is: is it higher or lower than adults'? Or is there such a wide range that the idea of a normal blood pressure is meaningless?
Five years ago nearly 15,000 children from all parts of the country who were born in April 1970, were picked to take part in the British National Cohort Study. They were measured for height and weight, and a note was made of where they lived, their sex and social backgrounds. Among other things their blood pressures were also measured.
This massive amount of information is gradually being sifted, and next month Dr Golding starts a two-year study — funded by the British Heart Foundation — to discover more about children's blood pressure. Does it, for example, vary with height or weight, with the child's sex, or whether the child enters puberty early? Later, Dr Golding will look to see if there are any geographical trends or any links with social class.
In time, this information may be used to help predict which children may grow up to have problems as adults and so help in the prevention of heart disease.
Hypertension — abnormally high tension, alluding to blood pressure and involving systolic and/or diastolic levels. There is no universal agreement of their upper limits of normal blood pressure, especially in increasing age. Many cardiologists consider a resting systolic pressure of 160 mm mercury (mmHg), and/or a resting diastolic pressure of 100 mmHg, to be pathological.
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l) Most people would assume that healthy children have "normal" blood pressure.
2) Research has been undertaken to investigate what the "normal" blood pressure in children is.
3) The children picked to take part in research were measured for height and weight. Their sex and social backgrounds were not noted. Dr Golding will try to find out if blood pressure varies with weight, height and sex in children.
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What would most people assume about the blood pressure in healthy children
MORE CARE URGED FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA
"The Goverment should provide better care for the quarter of a million people who suffer from schizophrenia", said Mrs Dorothy Silberston, Vice-Chairman of the National Schizophrenia Fellowshi p.
She said that patients with the illness were being released into the community without proper facilities for their care.
She told the fellowship's national seminar in Oxford on "The forgotten illness" that it would be better to retain the old, large Victorian mental hospitals rather than go along with the radical care in the community programme being put forward by many health authorities.
She said the Department of Health and Social Security was failing to fulfil its promise to provide special hostels, adjoining hospitals, where long-term schizophrenics could be cared for.
There were only 48 places available in such hostels throughout England and Wales.
She said the popular image of the Victorian mental hospital building was one of dreadful conditions where patients were locked away.
She said: "That is not our experience of the mental hospitals. We don't like the long corridors and shabby rooms any more than anyone else, but at the same time they are run by dedicated staff who understand the problems".
Mrs Silberston called on the Government to make sure that hospitals provided proper care for schizophrenics when they were discharged into the community.
"We feel that the rundown of the mental hospitals has to be stopped because we see no alternative for some of the most severely affected sufferers."
Schizophrenia — a group of mental illnesses characterized by disorganization of the patient's personality, often resulting in chronic life-long ill health and hospitalization. The onset, commonly in youth or early adult life, is either sudden or insidious. There are three elements common to all cases: a shallowness of emotional life; an inappropriateness of emotion; unrealistic thinking.