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“Normal” Blood Pressure in Chimpanzees
Author(s) -
Eichberg Jorg W.,
Shade Robert E.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of medical primatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1600-0684
pISSN - 0047-2565
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0684.1987.tb00340.x
Subject(s) - blood pressure , sedation , ketamine , medicine , physiology , statistical analysis , diastole , cardiology , anesthesia , statistics , mathematics
During routine physical examination under ketamine sedation, 140 blood pressure measurements from male and 170 from female chimpanzees were derived over a period of 3 yr. Statistical analysis revealed generally no differences between the sexes but significant increases of both systolic and diastolic blood pressure with increasing age. The data obtained may constitute a useful management tool with which to identify hypertensive chimpanzees and suggests that this animal species could be a model for hypertension research.