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The resting B.P.s of patients with complete paraplegia and tetraplegia are recorded at their first check-up. The results are plotted for all the cervicals, each thoracic level and all the lumbar lesions. There is a progressive rise in systolic blood pressure from the cervical down to the lumbar lesions, with a striking linear relationship. The gradient of the regression line is 1.97 and the correlation coefficient is 0.921. The diastolic blood pressure shows a similar linear relationship. The gradient of the regression line is 1.25 and the correlation coefficient is 0.922.
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Frankel, H., Michaelis, L., Golding, D. et al. The blood pressure in paraplegia I. Spinal Cord 10, 193–198 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1972.32
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