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XIX. What is blood pressure?
Blood pressure is the pressure or the force of blood
flowing against the walls of the arteries. Blood pressure is
constantly changing during the course of the cardiac cycle.
Systolic blood pressure is the highest pressure in the cycle.
Diastolic blood pressure is the lowest pressure in the cycle.
Both pressure readings, the Systolic rate and the Diastolic
rate, are information for the physician to evaluate the status
of patient's blood pressure. Many factors such as physical
activities, anxieties, time of day, can influence one's blood
pressure. Blood pressure is typically low in the morning and
increases from afternoon to the evening. It is lower in the
summer and higher in the winter.
Why is it useful to measure blood pressure at home?
Because having one's blood pressure measured by a doctor
in a hospital, or clinic tends to stimulate nervousness in a
person and may cause the blood pressure to rise. Also,
blood pressure changes in different conditions, so judgment
on the basis of single measurement is not reliable.
The blood pressure measured first thing in the morning
after getting up, before taking any food is known as the
fundamental blood pressure. So it is useful to take blood
pressure at home.
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