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Originally posted by Skamito
....There's a doubling of risk for each 20-point rise in the top number, called the systolic pressure, or 10-point rise in the bottom number, the diastolic pressure...

That sounds convincing, but is there any sound scientific basis for that statement? Not so according to Malcolm Kendrick. Read the following two articles (part 1 provides a link to part 2 at the bottom) and you decide.

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/kendrick/2003_jan09.html

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/kendrick/2003_jan16.html