The Weird Way Your Latitude May Affect Your Blood Pressure

The distance people live from the equator may influence their blood pressure, a new study suggests. Researchers found that people in Chile who lived at greater distances from the equator had higher average blood-pressure levels compared with people who lived closer to 0 degrees latitude. The study also found that the 37 percent of people in the country's southern latitudes (farther from the equator) had blood pressure high enough to diagnose the individuals with hypertension, whereas only 29 per