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the blood pressure in your arteries is too high

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What is the pressure that propels blood to the tissues?

mean arterial pressure


What does the mean arterial pressure in an infant mean?

Arterial pressure in an infant means the pressure of the blood circulating on the arteries. This is a result of vascular resistance and cardiac output.


How do you calculate the mean arterial pressure?

[Systolic Blood Pressure+(2 x Diastolic Blood Pressure)]/3


What Conditions affect mean arterial pressure?

Some conditions affecting mean arterial pressure, or MAP, blood pressure, heart rate, resistance to blood flow in the vessels, and cardiac output which is the volume of blood pumped out by the heart. Increasing or decreasing any of the can change your mean arterial pressure and cause consequences to the organs in the body.


Clinically the term blood pressure usually refers to?

Arterial pressure


What does hypopiesis mean?

Hypopiesis relates to hypotension, or subnormal arterial blood pressure.


How blood flow to an organ can change even if mean arterial pressure does not?

penis.


When you take a persons blood pressure it is a reflection of lymphatic pressure arterial pressure osmotic pressure or venous pressure?

arterial pressure


What is the driving force for blood flow through the systemic circuit?

mean arterial pressure


Blood pressure reading is a reflection of what?

Arterial pressure


In which type of bleeding is blood less likely to clot?

An arterial bleed, because the blood is flowing at a high rate of speed/pressure.


What is mean artery?

the pressure of the circulating blood on the arteries; "arterial pressure is the product of cardiac output and vascular resistance"