Temperature and the Effects on Blood Pressure
Morgan Boothe, Taylor Boothe, Grant Fehring, Lexi Sittenfeld-Parkhurst
Introduction
Blood pressure affects the heart and the
kidneys. Aldosterone, epinephrine, and
renin affect blood pressure. Blood
pressure increases by multiple situations:
genetics, stress, age, or eating habits.
Activities before blood pressure is taken
can affect results. Caffeine intake,
medications, physical activity,
temperature. Over time, high blood
pressure can affect your brain, kidneys,
and eyesight. They deteriorate because
high amounts of pressure harm arteries.
Slow blood flow limits blood to tissues and
organs damaging the brain, kidney, and
eyes.
Hypothesis
If higher water temperature, then higher
blood pressure. If lower water
temperature, then lower blood pressure.
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Objectives Procedure (cont.) Conclusion
To test how the surrounding climate -Place your hand in 30 water. for 2 Our data shows the resting SYS and DIA
effects your blood pressure and to prove minutes, then take out of the water. versus the SYS and DIA of our subjects
homeostasis in blood pressure. -Take blood pressure and record it. after putting their hands in different
-Repeat for 50, 70, 90, 110 water. temperatures of water for 2 minutes at a
Materials -Graph the change over time. time. The data shows that the closer the
water was to room temperature the closer
-Blood pressure cuff Results the blood pressure was to normal. You
-Bowl can see that with the 30 water, the
-Hotplate resulting blood pressure was very different
-Thermometer than the original because it was the
-Ice cubes farthest from room temperature.
-Bowls of 30, 50, 70, 90, 110
-Salt Special Thanks
Thank you to Ms.Mathews and our
Procedure classmates that we used as test subjects.
-Take resting blood pressure as a control.
Works Cited
-Prepare 5 bowls with 4 cups of water.
If the water was colder, it increased
-Put ice a bowl until the bowl of water gets https://www.practicalclinicalskills.com/blood-press
subjects blood pressure. It took subjects 3 ure-measurement
to 30 (add salt if the water isn't reaching
to 5 minutes for blood pressure to return to http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/microsites/E-Posi
that temperature with ice alone).
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normal.