Journals on Medical Informatics

Abstract

Current normal ranges for BMI and #blood pressure do not account for variations in patient’s height. I propose that taller patients should have as their normal a higher BMI and a higher blood pressure, and the converse for shorter people. The #baroreceptor is located in a major artery supplying the brain. Assuming the goal and regulation of blood pressure is to have the same cerebral perfusion pressure in an erect patient, then the blood pressure generated at the heart (and measured at that level) will need to be greater in taller patients as the #arterial hydrostatic pressure will decrease in an ascending #fluid column, the column being longer in a taller patient.

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Taller people should have Higher BMI’s and #BloodPressure Measurements as their Normal by Jonathan V Roth in BJSTR