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. […]
Individual blood pressure ranges from normal BP to abnormal, but the American Heart Association advises aiming for readings under 120 mm Hg systolic and 80 mm Hg diastolic. When a person has stage 1 hypertension, their systolic blood pressure is between 130 and 139 if the diastolic pressure is between 80 and 89. However, 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 […]