BREVARD PLAIMT
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FOTOFAX
Vol. 8, No. 2
E.l. Du Pont De Nemours & Company, Inc., Brevard, N.C.
June—July, 1975
High Blood Pressure
"Don't get your blood pressure up" is a
familiar expression used by people who
want other people to remain cool, calm,
and collected when faced with adversity.
This request has a similar but much deeper
significance to our Plant Medical Section.
Plant Doctor Leonard Lister explains,
"High blood pressure (HBP), also known as
hypertension, can be a forerunner of kid
ney failure, a brain hemorrhage (better
known as a stroke), or a heart attack.
Unlike the stereotype picture (the
feudin', fussin', fightin' image), the person
with HBP usually shows no outward symp
toms. By the same token, if you're dizzy,
flushed, headachy, or tense, you don't
necessarily have HBP. It's a silent illness."
In view of the seriousness and symptom-
free nature of HBP, the Heart Association
has developed an Industrial Hypertension
Control Program in cooperation with
industrial physicians to reduce ill health,
disability, and death from hypertensive
disease. This program is in full swing at the
Brevard Plant.
The first stage of the program involves
detection of HBP. During April, Carol Orr,
Plant Nurse, and Tom Conner, Medical
Technologist, took nearly 1000 blood
pressure measurements in Medical and Pro
duction Areas to find employees with this
problem. Seventy-five plant employees had
HBP. This figure is slightly lower than the
10 to 20% of the general population with
HBP. Dr. Lister attributes it to our rela
tively young plant population.
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IN THIS ISSUE
CRAIG PORTER RETIRES 2
STOCK IN 200 YR. OLD 3
2 MORE KANGAROOS 4
PROMOTIONS 5
DERA doings 6, 7
egg HUNT WELL ATTENDED 8
SAFETY SEMINAR 9
EMERGENCY TEAM OUTING ... 10, 11
picnic MAP 12
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Caro! searches for silent illness