Meaningless statistics on high blood pressure

YOUR report headlined ‘75% of taxi drivers have high blood pressure’ uses statistics in a meaningless way (Irish Examiner, May 12).

Fri, 19 May, 2006 - 01:00
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How high is ‘high’? Above the average?

And how can anyone say taxi drivers are more hypertensive than Irishmen of similar age without a comparison?

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