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Jamaica Gleaner Profiles in Medicine
published: Wednesday | January 29, 2003

Over the top High blood pressure
If you are too fat, eat too much salty foods, drink too much alcohol and sit around all day, then you fit the profile for hypertension.

The risk factors
PROFESSOR RAINFORD WILKS discussed some of the risk factors: Genetics - There is no doubt that there is a genetic contribution to hypertension and a lot of work has gone on in terms of the genetics...


When is blood pressure too high?
THE DEFINITION for high blood pressure, according to Professor Rainford Wilks, director, Epidemiology Research Unit, TMRI, University of the West Inides, has been a moving target.


Jamaican ginger: a world-class neutraceutical
J AMAICAN GINGER is usually exported as the peeled, dried product to be used as flavouring in the international food industry.




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