Dear List,

I wonder if any of you know how to make a continuous blood pressure variable from two variables? I have continuous variables for systolic and diastolic pressure: systolic_bp and diastolic_bp. These are expressed by the following ratio: systolic over diastolic pressure (for instance 145/83). I want to create a continuous variable, bp, that looks like this (example):
systolic_bp diastolic_bp bp
180 95 180/95
140 90 140/90
137 75 137/75
etc...
Any suggestions?

Best regards,
Sigrid