With each heartbeat, your heart pumps blood through your circulatory system, placing pressure on your blood vessels, including your veins, arteries, and capillaries. Your bp machine determines whether your bones, muscles, organs and other tissues get the needed oxygen and nutrition. Without blood pressure, your body’s many functions, including the digestive and immunological systems, couldn’t […]
Exactly how is blood pressure range determined? How about the meaning of systolic and diastolic pressure? says Calvin Chin, an associate professor of cardiology at the National Heart Centre in Singapore. Blood Pressure: What Is It? Blood pressure measures the pressure exerted by the body’s blood on the inner walls of blood vessels, particularly arteries. […]
Blood pressure is the force of your blood against the artery walls. Blood is transported from your heart to different regions of your body through arteries. Throughout the day, your systolic and diastolic blood pressure typically increases and decreases. Why Do Blood Pressure Readings Matter? Two numbers are used to determine blood pressure: Systolic blood […]
Systolic and diastolic pressure are the two values that make up a blood pressure (BP) measurement. The highest reading, or systolic blood pressure, describes how much pressure is placed on the arteries when the heart is pounding. The lowest reading, or diastolic blood pressure, measures the pressure in the arteries between heartbeats while the heart […]