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Systolic pressure is the upper number and diastolic pressure is the lower number.
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What are the units blood pressure is reported in?
Blood Pressure is measured and reported as a pressure in mm of mercury
Blood pressure more about low blood pressure?
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What should I do if your blood pressure is 158 over 102?
blood presure read 158/102
Where could I find information about lowering my blood pressure?
The National heart,lung,and blood institute is a great page to read up on lowering your blood pressure. They are many sites available about how to achieve a lower blood pressure reading.
What should a normal blood pressure read?
A good blood pressure reading is anything 120/80 and lower.
Which vitamins help lower blood pressure?
Vitamin C, vitamin E, and vitamin A is three vitamins that can lower high blood pressure. Vitamin C protects your arties. If you want to lower your blood pressure 800 units of vitamin E everyday.
What are the parts of a blood pressure apparatus?
The parts of a blood pressure cuff include several gauges, an inflation ball, rubber tubing, stethoscope and the cuff. A knob is present on the rubber tubing to release pressure. The air released enters a gauge that is read, usually by mercury level, to read blood pressures.
What should blood pressure level read?
blood pressure can be too low and too high, if it is over 140/90 you should think about seeing a doctor.
What do the two number in the blood pressure mean?
Blood pressure is pressure exerted by blood on the walls of blood vessels. The two numbers represent the systolic and diastolic pressure. Systolic pressure is the pressure exerted during ventricular contraction(also called systole) and diastolic pressure is the pressure exerted during ventricular relaxation(also called diastole). The units of blood pressure are millimeters of Mercury (mmHg) because it represents how far up a tube the pressure can push a column of mercury, which was how pressure used to be measured.
What are the units used to measure preassure?
Blood pressure is usually expressed in terms of millimeters of mercury (mmHg).
What is the standard unit for measuring blood preassure?
The blood-pressure numbers are in units of mm-Hg. That's the pressure at the bottom of a column of mercury that's that many millimeters tall. For a comparison, a typical healthy systolic pressure may be 120. On exactly the same scale and in the same units, the Earth's atmospheric pressure at sea level is 760 . If your blood pressure were 760, it wouldn't be for long, because you would most likely explode.
Is high blood pressure always noticeable?
No, high blood pressure isn't always noticeable. It is like a silent killer, if you don't go to the doctor regular to get check-up, then you probably won't notice that you have high blood pressure. This is something you have to have read
