Blood pressure

A large number of researchers in recent years have conducted several experiments relating to blood pressure and heart rate. It has been concluded that this is most likely due to the fact that there are increased rates of cardiovascular disease found in the United States. Many of the early researcher’s main concern was to find the key influence to reducing both heart rate and blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured with a sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope. The sphygmomanometer is used to measure pressure. This pressure is recognized as the arterial systolic and diastolic pressure. The arterial pressure is found by putting the cuff around the arm to cover the brachial artery. The stethoscope is then placed under the cuff to detect the…

Introduction: Blood pressure is controlled by the autonomic nervous system and is the pressure of the circulating blood being exerted upon the arterial walls of the blood vessels. Blood pressure is determined by ones cardiac output, blood volume, and peripheral resistance. Blood pressure is expressed by a systolic pressure and diastolic pressure and is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg). Systolic pressure is the maximum pressure during ventricular contraction of the left ventricle while…

Blood Pressure Blood pressure , as a physiological variable of humans, is a hydrostatic pressure, utilized by blood on the walls of blood vessels.(Tortora and Derrickson 2011). It is caused by the contraction of the ventricles and the amount of blood in the whole cardiovascular system. The mean blood pressure (the average pressure in the cardiac cycle) is coordinated in order to provide adequate blood transfer to the tissues.(Saladin,2001). The decrease of blood pressure is followed by an…

Hypertension A.K.A. High Blood Pressure I picked High Blood Pressure also known as Hypertension for my disease for this assignment. The main reason is because it seems everyone around me has high blood pressure. A coworker has high blood pressure and did not take his medications and ended up having a really bad stroke. I didn’t realize until that happened that it could be as serious as a stroke to people. My husband has high blood pressure and I am on him all the time about taking his medicine.…

measuring blood pressure and how it relates to Adult Nursing. I will explain the term blood pressure and how the skill is used. I believe it is one of the most important clinical skills required to monitor patient’s health and wellbeing. Firstly the term Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure that the blood exerts on the walls of the blood vessels. Systemic arterial blood pressure sustains the essential flow of blood into and out of the organs of the body. It is crucial to maintain BP within its…

is a discussion of the descriptive data for the variables systolic blood pressure , diastiloc blood pressure, gender and nationtonal insitute of health hypertension category used to decribe the sample. Within this sample of 50 particpants, the average systolic blood pressure obtained was 135.88. This average takes into consideration all scores obtained within this sample population (Loiselle et al., 2011). If the scores were rearrange from the lowest score obtained which was a minimum of 90 to…

depression, glaucoma, and osteoporosis. Blood pressure goes up when you are active and down when you are resting or sleeping. Sudden, dangerously high, and life-threatening blood pressure is called hypertension. His blood pressure is 170/80mmhg. Several types of drugs are used to control hypertension. These medications may be used alone or combination with other drugs. ACE inhibitors block production of substances that constrict blood vessels. They also help to decrease the build up of water and…

Wrist and upper-arm blood pressure monitors are mainstays of the blood pressure monitor industry, but some people find them a little bit too bulky or intimidating to be of any use. Finger blood pressure monitors provide a welcome and handy (no pun intended) alternative to these more popular models. A lot of people are suspicious of finger blood pressure monitors and believe them to be unreliable and ineffective when it comes to delivering a reliable reading of one’s blood levels. While it is…

a person’s force of blood against the artery walls is consistently elevated over a long period of time and causes a constant blood pressure reading above 140/90 mm Hg. When blood pressure is high over long periods of time it can cause permanent long term effects to the blood vessels. You get this reading by measuring how much blood is pumped out of the heart and the overall resistance of the arteries to the flow of blood. You measure the blood pressure by measuring the diastole, which is the…

on our blood pressure. If increased amounts of sodium are added to plain spaghetti noodles, will that increase blood pressure? If 7 grams of sodium is introduced to plain noodles and consumed, then the person 's systolic and diastolic reading will increase dramatically, when blood pressure is a function of sodium. This is our hypothesis. We predict that when we take the blood pressure of our test subjects after eating the noodles with 7 grams of salt, it will rise to 160 or higher over 100 or…