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lord [1]
2 years ago
5

1. What is Blood Pressure?

Medicine
1 answer:
snow_tiger [21]2 years ago
8 0

I tried im a student for CNA

Explanation: 1. Blood pressure is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. Most of this pressure is due to work done by the heart by pumping blood through the circulatory system. Used without further specification, "blood pressure" usually refers to the pressure in large arteries of the systemic circulation.

2. The arteries (red) carry oxygen and nutrients away from your heart, to your body's tissues. The veins (blue) take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart. Arteries begin with the aorta, the large artery leaving the heart.

3. They carry oxygen-rich blood away from theBlood pressure is the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Each time your heart beats, it pumps blood into the arteries.

4. Your blood pressure is highest when your heart beats, pumping the bYour blood pressure is highest when your heart beats, pumping the blood. This is called systolic pressure. When your heart is at rest, between beats, your blood pressure falls. This is called diastolic pressure.lood. This is called systolic pressure. heart.

5.Diastole. Diastole, in the cardiac cycle, period of relaxation of the heart muscle, accompanied by the filling of the chambers with blood. ... Ventricular diastole again occurs after the blood has been ejected (during ventricular systole) into the aorta and pulmonary artery.

6.BLOOD PRESSURE CATEGORY SYSTOLIC mm Hg

(upper number)   DIASTOLIC mm Hg

(lower number)

NORMAL LESS THAN 120 and LESS THAN 80

ELEVATED 120 – 129 and LESS THAN 80

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

(HYPERTENSION) STAGE 1 130 – 139 or 80 – 89

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

(HYPERTENSION) STAGE 2 140 OR HIGHER or 90 OR HIGHER

HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS

(consult your doctor immediately) HIGHER THAN 180 and/or HIGHER THAN 120.

PLEASE GIVE ME A BRAINLIST IF THIS HELP.

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