European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the Tarsan stripes monday june 2, 1960 you have probably seen them in shopping malls supermarkets and Public Parks. They arc Small Booths where for a Quarter or two. You can have your blood pressure measured automatically. Since heart disease is n major health problem among americans such devices seem like a Good idea. But the question a lot of my readers have posed is Are they accurate their concerns arc Well founded. Four or five years ago similar blood pressure machines sprang up in Public places but the recordings frequently proved inaccurate and the machines were of the new machines arc the result of recent advances in technology and have been dubbed second generation automatic blood pressure , of course. I cannot sneak for All of these blood pressure recording devices i can say with some Assurance that most arc reliable and reasonably accurate. This View is shared by or. Jeremiah Slammer of Northwestern University one of the nation s leading on blood pressure control. The Coin operated automatic blood pressure recorders arc a helpful development in controlling blood or. Stamler said recently. They arc reasonably consistent and if used properly Are a help to both doctor and patient but. Or. Sayner warns you have to remember that a single blood pressure recording is not a diagnosis it can t be taken too literally. It is a message to have yourself checked by a while he is aware that the machine can and does err occasionally. Or. Stamler believes that the device s benefits outweigh its drawbacks. Too Many americans with High blood pressure remain undiagnosed and untreated he agree. Many of my own patients Check their blood pressure if they happen to be in a supermarket or shopping Center where there is a Coin operated machine. I think this is a Good idea As Long As they Don t panic if their blood pressure registers a bit higher than when measured in the quieter environment of my you Are under treatment for High blood pressure and plan to use the machine try to use it each time at the same time of Day. Also try to measure your blood pressure following the same amount of activity. In other word Don t dash up to the machine fling yourself Down toss in some coins and expect to get a valid Reading. Used properly the automatic blood pressure machines can be a guide but Only a guide to improved diagnosis and treatment. C my stud j. Halter slim. . No. Black death claims 1st 80 victim Albuquerque . A bubonic plague the Black death that wiped out a Quarter of Europe s population in the Middle Ages has claimed its first . Fatality of the year in new Mexico the stale that leads the nation in plague victim was a 51-year-old Laguna Pueblo Man who died in an Albuquerque Hospital of the pneumonic form of plague which can be transmitted from person to , or. Richard Hoffman acting state epidemiologist said there was no evidence that the organism had spread from the victim. We arc presently investigating All the Possi ble contacts the patient had with both Hospital personnel and immediate family and neigh Bors Hoffman to or. Arnold Kaufman of the National Center for disease control in Atlanta new Mexico has More reported cases than any other state. In the last 10 years. New Mexico has recorded 58 cases More than half the number nation wide he said. The state has recorded 87 plague cases since 1949, when record keeping began. Fifteen of the 87 died. Bubonic plague can be transmitted Lohu mans through the bites of fleas from infected rodents and other animals. The bubonic form can develop into the pneumonic or contagious u me6 Are you Blinci with that ply tout a command an staff Mee Tinct. It Kadesh to Mike symptoms Are fever general Mal aise and soreness of the Lymph glands in the underarm and Groin areas. The incubation period varies from about three to seven Days Kaufman said. Kaufman said the reasons for the High Inci Dence of plague cases in new Mexico include the fact that the state s nearly 122,000 Square Miles House the types of rodents that tend to become infected with a Flea which is not choosy about who or what it Biles. These rodents such As Rock squirrels and Prairie dogs also tend to be targe giving the fleas More living space. Fifteen cases have occurred in Mckinley county near the 125,000-Square-mile Navajo Indian reserved states where new Mexico Arizona Colorado and Utah meet tends to be a highly endemic indians May come in More frequent Contact with the fleas of infected rodents because the indians Herd sheep through grounds inhabited by the animals and some indians like to cat Prairie dogs and other Small rodents that May be infected he said. Kaufman said nobody knows How bubonic plague came to haunt the but Theo Ries hold that it was always Here or thai it was brought by rats aboard ships from the Orient at the turn of the Century. 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