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2 unusual facts about Torr


DASH diet

The diet reduced systolic blood pressure by 6 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure by 3 mm Hg in patients with high normal blood pressure, now called "pre-hypertension."

Spontaneously hypertensive rat

Hypertensive development begins around 5–6 weeks of age, reaching systolic pressures between 180 and 200 mmHg in the adult age phase.


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Diane Torr

Torr currently lives and works in Glasgow where she is Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.

Dona Torr

The Torr family was listed in Burke's Landed Gentry and her grandfather, John Torr, had been a wealthy merchant in Liverpool, a Conservative M.P., and staunch Anglican.

Fremontia

Fremontia is a common name for Fremontodendron, a plant genus in the family Malvaceae, formerly known scientifically by the illegitimate name Fremontia Torr.

Mark Howell

In addition to his band work, Howell has composed for Lynn Shapiro (at the American Dance Festival 1994), Amy Sue Rosen, Diane Torr, and Stephanie Artz.

Vacuum brake

In the UK the pre-nationalisation railway companies standardised around systems operating on a vacuum of 21 inches of mercury (533.4 Torr), with the exception of the Great Western Railway, which used 25 inches of mercury (635 Torr).

William Jethro Brown

Brown was the son of James Brown, a farmer, and his wife Sophia Jane, née Torr, and was born at Mintaro, South Australia.


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