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Diet SHR Rat
Average systolic pressure = 163 mmHg
Average diastolic pressure = 112 mmHg
Average mean pressure = 132 mmHg
Heart rate = 300 beats per minute

Like humans, high blood pressure in rats is ameliorated with dieting. See the data above. Note that when these rats were placed on a diet, they had normal salt intake.

Data were obtained during the day, their inactive period.

(The code for the applets is heavily based on the Graph Package created by Leigh Brookshaw(c)1996 used under the terms of the GNU General Public License).