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Warpy

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1. A lot of old folks with placque in their carotid arteries

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2013, 01:44 AM

Dec 2013

don't perfuse their brains all that well on tightly controlled blood pressure. It's about time they got a little more relaxed in that department. I remember pitched battles between neurologists and cardiologists over what a person's blood pressure should be to allow him to stand upright, at all.

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A lot of old folks with placque in their carotid arteries Warpy Dec 2013 #1