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Valacapt
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:51 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Separating the parts of a blood pressure notation |
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Average blood pressure is usually written as 120/80, which are the upper (systolic) and lower (diastolic) pressures. For statistical use the Mean Arterial Pressure is used. In order to compute that, the systolic and diastolic numbers have to be extracted from the notation. (For info: The computation is: Systolic + [2* Diastolic])/3, which I can do, of course, once I have the two quantities.)
In the future I am going to use a separate column for each, but I have years of spreadsheets where the systolic/diastolic format is used. Is there a function I can use to do to get the two numbers as separate: systolic and diastolic so that I can get out of having to compute the MAP manually?
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Villeroy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:09 am Post subject: |
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X1 =FIND("/";A1) gets the position of the slash in A1.
Y1 =VALUE(LEFT(A1;X1-1)) gets the text before that position and converts the text to a numeric value.
Z1 =VALUE(MID(A1;X1+1;LEN(A1))) gets the text behind that position and converts the text to a numeric value.
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Valacapt
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:09 am Post subject: |
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| Villeroy wrote: | X1 =FIND("/";A1) gets the position of the slash in A1.
Y1 =VALUE(LEFT(A1;X1-1)) gets the text before that position and converts the text to a numeric value.
Z1 =VALUE(MID(A1;X1+1;LEN(A1))) gets the text behind that position and converts the text to a numeric value. |
Works like a charm. Really do plan to take the time to learn this stuff, but your quick help in this urgent need was a life-saver. Live long and prosper. |
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