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...DANGER ZONES: A primer...
...look at how doctors actually diagnose high blood pressure, the more they think they've been grading on a too generous curve. Traditionally, readings between 120/80 and 140/90 have been labeled borderline, less likely to require drugs or other intervention. Now the NHLBI believes that patients may begin approaching danger when their systolic reading--the first number--is as low as 115. Although pressure varies from moment to moment and day to day, a reading that hits the danger zone on two separate visits to the doctor may signal trouble...
...102/60, still far below the traditional adult benchmark of 120/80. The NHLBI now recommends making blood-pressure readings a part of all visits to the pediatrician. Any child who repeatedly scores in the 95th percentile or above for height, age and sex should be considered in danger...
...that separated the two Koreas and occasionally drew hostile fire from North Korean soldiers across the border--even though an official cease-fire had been in place since 1953. Jenkins had served with enough distinction to find himself leading reconnaissance missions. But he couldn't cope with the danger...
...setting is integrated into the choreography of the fight scenes, although somewhat more conventionally; it incorporates the stock “fight in a stand of bamboo,” for instance, but often blends the natural with the dangerous more than the genre necessitates. In one memorable scene, the two main characters are saved from a marauding band of soldiers when an unknown, hidden presence kills their foes using wooden daggers. This shows the landscape’s danger despite its beauty, a theme that echoes Zhang’s deadly shirtsleeves...