...that needs help walking has the blood pressure readings and pulse rate of a healthy 10 year old? "Normal" blood pressure for anyone over 60 is 140/90. That is for someone taking no medicines and that does not have any diseases,do drugs,drink,or is overweight. Yet her doc is claiming that WITHOUT any blood pressure meds her BP is 100/60 (I THINK the bottom number he claimed was 60),and her pulse was in a similar range. Do ANY of you know of a 68 year old fat woman with a BP reading of 100/60? Even one that doesn't drink or do drugs and that gets plenty of sleep and exercise?
@sneakypete@CatherineofAragon @mystery-ak I agree with you - when I saw the blood pressure numbers and pulse number, I thought it had to be bogus. I was an EMT and never got such numbers on elderly people.
I am 82, will be 83 next month, and take TWO blood pressure pills and three weeks ago had a physical and blood pressure was 124/70, heart rate 88. With only one blood pressure pill, blood pressure was in 160s, 170s. That is why doc gave me another one about six months ago to bring it down. That worked.
The doc said at that appt. six months ago, that "Medicare" had changed the target blood pressure for older people from the 140s to the low 130s. I thought that was nuts that Medicare was determining what blood pressure older people should have.
After taking blood pressure of people as an EMT, no way did Clinton have a blood pressure of 100/60 unless she had an intravenous drug being dripped into her body to get that number.
Yes, there are always exceptions as someone here says their elderly relative had that 100/60 all his life. However, with Clinton, having some sort of health disability (likely neurological), plus all the pressures in her life, I don't buy those blood pressure numbers.
A true story:
When I was training to be an EMT, I had to work on an ambulance - remember I was training, not an EMT yet, had not taken the state test yet. We picked up an elderly woman at a hospital, who had a heart attack, to take her to a hospital that had better heart facilities. An ambulance is not a steady ride - it sways. I had to take her vital signs which included blood pressure. I had a regular stethoscope and separate blood pressure cuff device which meant two devices to get the blood pressure, while swaying in the ambulance. I was hoping I was getting the right numbers.
Then, we got to the hospital parking lot and the EMTs said for me to take another blood pressure before we went into the emergency lane. Once again, I was hoping I was getting the right numbers, the pressure was on. We were still there when the elderly woman was in her room, and they hooked her to an automatic blood pressure machine. When the numbers came up, the EMTs training me, said, "The numbers are exactly what you got!" I felt like I had been accepted into heaven. I would get a good report from these EMTs which would go to the instructor training us.
I was in my early 60s when I took this training and I was going to prove being older did not mean we were worthless to be pitched on the life heap of useless. My objective was to be a first responder in our large subdivision until an ambulance could get there and I did that for a number of years until I moved from that subdivision.
If one wants to be helpful to others, that doesn't have to stop just because one gets older. And, that blood pressure of Clinton is highly suspect.
