My BP values vary between 16/10 and 13/7, comparing to others I am really dangerously low. What could I do?
My BP has been 120/80 since ever I remember. Frustrates the HELL out of my flight suregon who is so darn sure he can ground me due to my overweight.bq.
Hopefully you are not feeling sleepy with a BMI over 40.
My BP values vary between 16/10 and 13/7, comparing to others I am really dangerously low. What could I do?
You could use different units: that’s not compatible with life. You could move to the UK where asymptomatic low blood pressure isn’t recognised as a medical condition in the way it is on much of the continent. My partner has lived in 4 different countries before Britain and it’s always amusing to see how different medical care for the same conditions is in each one.
I think they have only recently proved that smoking causes cancer…
Smoking has known to be unhealthy since at least the 1930s and really, there’s been no doubt whatsoever since the 1950s. It’s an interesting question as to why it was ever considered controversial.
You could move to the UK where asymptomatic low blood pressure isn’t recognised as a medical condition in the way it is on much of the continent
Here in the UK, you will have problems with your aviation medical if the lower figure is above, from memory, 95. I am sure there is a CAA doc somewhere…
Smoking has known to be unhealthy since at least the 1930s and really, there’s been no doubt whatsoever since the 1950s. It’s an interesting question as to why it was ever considered controversial.
My comment was slightly tongue in cheek Yes, intelligent people have known for decades that smoking was bad for you, but until you work out the exact molecular-level connection, it is always possible for somebody to claim that the (obvious) correlation between smoking and lung cancer is caused by people who are genetically predisposed to developing lung cancer also being genetically predisposed to having a nicotine addiction. It’s a subtle difference, completely lost on most writers in popular media.
Hopefully you are not feeling sleepy with a BMI over 40
Wouldn’t know as I never had a BMI that high. My record is 33…. also way too much but still within EASA Class 2 limits.
160/95 is the cut off above which you can’t be issued with your medical certificate without further workup and lower readings.
The new EASA guidance requires further investigations/review if the BP is above 140/85
My comment was slightly tongue in cheek
and so was mine
That criteria would have stopped me from flying twenty years ago.160/95 is the cut off above which you can’t be issued with your medical certificate without further workup and lower readings.
EASA continue their relentless campaign to regulate themselves out of business….
140/85 will surely regulate out something like 80-90%+ of males who hang out on the GA scene. That’s astonishing.
Yes indeed. Sorry, that was in fact the part of Frank’s post which I had meant to quote, not the higher figures!