European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 3, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 7 saucy faults hypertension treatment Chicago a doctors who limit i hair treat ment of hypertension to lowering blood pressure arc ignoring Oiler risk factors and actually May be endangering their patients according 10 a study. What we be shown in our analysis is that just Low ering the blood pressure in itself is not impressive unless you can do something to control serum Choles Terol and other risk factors said or. Ola Samuel soon. Samuelsson was part of a team of swedish research ers who studied inc relationship Between cardiovascular disease and control or blood pressure and scrum cholesterol in 6b6 Middle aged hypertensive patients Over a 12-year period. The doctors affiliated with the Sahl Grunska Hospi Tal of the University of ocl Borg Sweden reported their findings in the current edition of the journal of the american medical association. They concluded that there were no additional treat men benefits to be gained by lowering the blood pres sure of a hypertensive patient beyond a systolic Dias Tolic blood pressure Reading of 150/85 on a blood pressure Monitor. A hypertensive patient is defined by National institutes of health standards As one with a blood pressure Reading of 140/90, while the United nations sponsored world health organization s Standard is 160/95. A systolic Reading measures How much pressure the blood is exerting against the Walls of the vessels during a heartbeat. A diastolic Reading measures the same pressure on blood vessel Walls Between heartbeats. Samuelsson and colleagues noted that lowering a patient s blood pressure below the 130/85 threshold when other coronary complications exist increased the incidence of heart disease. Thus the expression the lower inc blood pres sure the better does not seem to be True in treated hypertension said Samuck son. Doctors Loo often look Only a blood pressure in the treatment of hypertensive patients instead of the total risk Factor profile he added. This is probably because we have drug therapies Radil 1 available and changing people s dieting or smoking habits is More difficult Samu Coltson said he could Only speculate on Why towering blood pressure below the threshold level could prove dangerous. It May be if you go too far in some subjects you impair he blood flow and trigger other complications he said. Researchers May hesitate to try to explain their find Ings because while they might have established a statistically significant association they May not have established a cause and of Eccl relationship said or. Michael Koran chief of the hypertension Branch of the National heart lung and blood Institute part of the Bethesda  National institutes of health. This study says if you re going to treat hypertensive patients aggressively once you be got the blood pres sure Down into that Range 1 so/85go alter serum cholesterol aggressively go after smoking go after weight reduction. And other contributory factors Horan said. Third world debt discussed Washington a Over the Pasi few Days financial leaders from around the world have proposed new and nol so new ways of dealing with the mounting debt of the third world. Most of the ideas presented to the 42nd annual meeting of the world Dank and International monetary fund win be the subject of lengthy bargaining and negotiations third world debt has increased 25 percent Over the past years reaching j 1.08 trillion in 1987. Much of inc problem is attributable to rising population rates slow growth and depressed commodity prices which have hampered developing countries Abil Tity to service their debts while creating demand for new Loans. Analysts agree that the most significant development to emerge from the annual meeting which gathers delegates from 151 nations is support for an increase in the world Bank s capital. Bank president Barber Conable has called for an in crease of up to $30 billion almost double the Bank s current capital to enable the organization to increase its annual lending from s17 billion to some $20 billion. Mother finds lost9 son in mental Ward Jacksonville Fla. A a Mother id she spent eight years searching for her son who was lost in the state mental health system be cause of confidentiality Laws before a sympathetic Hospital employee Bent the rules. Officials on wednesday agreed that Charles Wright 28, should be released into the custody of Martha Wright who had him admitted to Northeast Florida stale Hospital near Here in 1978. Since then Wright has been in and out of mental hospitals officials said. He s lost so much time mrs. Wright  in t any Way to make up for that but we re going Home to try to get close to each  mrs. Wright assured circuit judge r. Hudson Olliff who is considering her request to become her son s guardian that she will make sure he takes Medicine to keep his illness under control Wright who was diagnosed As a schizophrenic when he was admitted to Northeast Florida state in 1978, walked out u the Hospital a year later. Mrs. Wright tried to find out if her son had been resumed to the Hospital. But officials said privacy Laws prevented them from saying. During her eight year quest mrs. Wright often Felt depressed and hopeless she said. In july she called the Hospital again. This Lime an employee whom she refused to identify told her that her son had been in inc Hospital last year but was transferred to the North Florida treat ment and evaluation Center in Gainesville. Mrs. Wright and her son were reunited shortly after that. If the Bank can lend More Money indebted countries can use the Loans to help service their debts repay the capital and attract investors and commercial Banks to Spur economic growth. Another proposal for casing third world debt would help some 60 of the world s poorest countries those with an average annual per capita income of $790 or less. Delegates to the meeting almost unanimously endorsed the plan the notable exception being the United states. The United states called on countries with Trade sur pluses notably Japan and Germany to assume the Burden of the new plan and others like it Japan taking up the . Challenge announced Shat it would spend More than $7.6 billion annually to Aid inc third we rid by the year 1990 and would provide another $500 million Over the next three years As Grams Japan had originally planned to implement inc plan in 1992. But the participants noted that the if world  and their own governments could not solve the Job ice alone. The commercial Banks would have to overcome their reluctance to lend Money to the debtor nations and Chip in too they said. Top world Bank debtors cumulate a borrowing through jury 1987 in billion of Dollar of Shrago to Tina graphic source worht Buwik trailer Park s ban on kids of d san Francisco a a Mobile Home Park can deny housing to families with Young children the state supreme court ruled thursday the court upheld a stale Law saying the legislature was entitled to conclude that Many Mobile Homes Are Small and ill suited to housing families being More appropriate for couples and single  since the Homes Are often close together and Lack soundproofing the play of Young children and the music of their teen age siblings might inordinately disturb the Tranquility of their neighbors said Justice Stanley mask in the Lead opinion. He said he sympathized with families need for Low priced housing but said the solution lies with inc legislature not the  the ruling contrasts with decisions by the court in 1982 and i9s3 thai state civil rights Laws prohibited age discrimination in apartments and condominiums. The Mobile Home Case was different because state Laws in 1975 and 1973 had allowed owners of Mobile Home Parks to impose adults Only requirements. But the Case was the first All rim Natian Issue to come before the court since Connor natives appointed by gov. George Duck median gained a majority this year replacing chief Justice Rose Bird and two col leagues Defeated in november s election. The Case involved the 232-Home ranch club to bile estates Park in Buellton which in 1977 stopped leasing spaces to households with people under 25. The Rule was challenged by Toni Schmidt who had negotiated the push ask of a Mobile Home in the Park but was prohibited from moving in because her House hold included her daughter. Rachel 9, and her two Sisters ten 24, and Lisa Estey 18. Santa Barbara county Superior court judge Zel Canter ruled against Schmidt but was reversed by the 2nd District court of appeals. Education handbook called racist Albany . A a state Board of regents handbook on High school dropouts has angered Educa tors some of whom say the 110-Page Booklet portrays Blacks As inferior. The head of the slate school boards association has called the handbook  other educators have criticized the authors As insensitive saying they pro Mote negative stereotypes of Black youths. The handbook increasing High school comple Tion Rales was published in july and distributed to about 15,000 educators in preparation for a series of conferences this fall. A spokesman for the slate education department Christopher Carpenter said the report was not in tended As policy statement. The handbook Calls for a new approach to teaching Blacks who the authors say tend to View things in their entirety and not in isolated  the handbook also says Blacks lend not to be word dependent but Are proficient in nonverbal communication and tend to give approximate answers rather than specific Replin. Black dents Don t reason any differently than while students said Constance t no president of inc National education association in Albany. Irving Hamer one of the authors of the handbook denied that the work is racist. However Hamer did acknowledge problems with the handbook. He said he did not Confer with or Check the credentials of Janice Hale Benson a Black educator from Cleveland state University whose theories on the importance of social and cultural background in education formed the basis of the report Carpenter said inc report was commissioned As part of the department s Effort to study the stale s dropout problem which is particularly severe among minority group students. More than Ujj percent of All Black students do not finish High school while 67 percent of hispanic Stu dents drop out. According 10 department figures. It a intended to be a guide for discussion on the topic and not a policy Lut Cuenl Carpenter said. The report he said Wilt be revised to cite All source More clearly