Dear WW: I am eminently unqualified to give medical advice. I have been retired for about twenty five years, and have made no effort to keep up, and have forgotten a lot. There is a lot of evidence that salt restriction is very beneficial in most forms of hypertension. I am unsure what the blood pressures you give may be caused by. But I would hope you have a good doctor and take his advice. But you have given me something to do. I am pleasantly surprised by the amount and quality of medical information on the Net, so long as you totally avoid the alternative medical idiots. Internet, here I come.