how the blood pressure is measured?
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"Blood pressure is the pressure exerted by the blood on the walls of the blood vessels\n...\nThe systolic pressure is...the peak pressure in the arteries during the cardiac cycle; the diastolic pressure is the lowest pressure"\n\nIn other words:\nBlood pressure (measured using a cuff around the arm filled with air & mercury) is how much pressure is being put on your arteries.  If you've ever had your blood pressure taken, the systolic pressure is the point when the cuff stops cutting the circulation off and you are able to feel you pulse in your arm.  The diastolic pressure is the point when the cuff no longer puts pressure on the artery (because the arteries pressure is now higher than that of the cuff).  This is the point where you would no longer be able to feel your pulse in your arm and it would just feel normal again.\n\nTypically the normal blood pressure is 120/80, but this can vary greatly by age and state of health.\n\nHope this was helpful.
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The pulse is measured at the wrist, neck, temple, groin, behind the knees, or on top of the foot. In these areas, an artery passes close to the skin.\n\nTo measure the pulse at the wrist, place the index and middle finger over the underside of the opposite wrist, below the base of the thumb. Press firmly with flat fingers until you feel the pulse. To measure the pulse on the neck, place the index and middle finger just to the side of the Adam's apple, in the soft, hollow area. Press firmly until the pulse is located.\n\nOnce you find the pulse, count the beats for 1 full minute, or for 30 seconds and multiply by 2. This will give the beats per minute.
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Depends if you r a man or woman. Basically yheu vheck your blood, urine. Make you stretch a bit. Check weight, pulse,\nheart beat, blood pressure. If u r a guy check you penis and\nlastly check your prostrate.
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It does depend on your age and your health. This is kind of high. Sometimes your blood pressure can go up temporarily for a lot of reasons including stress or pain. Since you're checking it every day, and if you see that it is at or more than 130/90 consistently, you should see a doctor and show him or her your results. Usually that's what a doctor would do, have you keep a log before they put you on medication. There's also something called white coat hypertension. That's when you get stressed just having your blood pressure checked and it goes up. The best thing to do is always check with your doctor if you have a health concern.
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The top number is the systolic rate,the bottom number is the diastolic rate.\n\nSystolic pressure (the higher,first #) measures the force that the blood exerts on the artery walls as the heart contracts to pump the blood.\n\nDiastolic pressure (the lower second #) is the measurement of force as the heart relaxes to allow blood to flow to the heart.
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Blood pressure should go up as the blood is pumping harder through your body when exercising, although if your head feels weird you might want to go easy, you might have a head cold or something coming. Youll find if you continue exercising your blood pressure goes down even if your working quite hard, this is a sign your fitness level is improving. Just take it at a comfortable pace for you and then build it up at a harder level when you feel its too easy. xx
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They say it is the spikes in blood pressure that are the most dangerous, rather than having steady hypertension.  Those spikes, caused by stress like your commute, put sudden stress on your heart.  So, measuring when you are unstressed can tell you what your bp should be, but measuring when it's high (seeing how much you spike) should be a red alert to learn to control stress better.
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I wouldn't worry about it, your blood pressure is in the normal range. Normal for an adult is 120/80.
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Heart rate, heart volume, resistance to flow in the circulatory system, and where you measure it (pressure is higher at lower body locations, and it decreases as it flows through the capillaries). Osmotic pressure becomes significant if you are measuring net pressure (and flow) across the capillary walls.
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Hmmm.  I'm not sure what your question is.  In our office, we usually feel it's adequate to check the blood pressure in each arm, unless we have a clinical suspicion that a certain diagnosis, such as coarctation of the aorta, should be entertained.  I'm not sure what you are getting at here. . .
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Sounds like a job for Wikipedia!\n\nBlood pressure is the pressure of the blood on the walls of the blood vessels as the heart squirts it through the circulatory system.   When your blood first leaves the pump (your heart) it's moving as fast as it's going to, and there's as much pressure in the system as there's going to be.  The farther from the heart you go, the less the pressure in the system (just like an irrigation system, or the plumbing in a house.)\n\nThe heart not only has to pump the blood out to where it's needed, it has to pump it back again, to run it through the lungs to pick up some more oxygen so it can be recirculated.  Blood pressure is much lower on the return trip, when the blood is way out there far from the pump.  The outbound system is your arteries, the return trip is your veins.  \n\nMostly when you measure blood pressure, it's the pressure in the big arteries that are close to the skin and easy to find without poking any holes (the brachial artery in the arm is an example). \n\nThe traditional way to measure blood pressure is in millimetres of mercury (mm Hg), and you always state it the same way so everyone knows what you're talking about.  From a medical point of view what you're interested in is how much pressure there is in the system when the heart isn't squirting new blood into it (at the "resting" phase or "bottom" of the heartbeat cycle) which is called the diastolic pressure; and then how much pressure there is in the system at the top of the cycle, when your heart is forcing new blood into your arteries, which is called the systolic pressure.  So the "top of the cycle" number goes on top, and the "bottom of the cycle" number goes on the bottom.  A typical reading for a resting, healthy adult is around 120/80 (meaning 120 mmHg systolic and 80 mmHg diastolic)\n\nHope this is what you needed!
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Have your blood pressure checked.
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Normal blood pressure is 120/70.  If it's at 158/84, it's considered on the high side.  Yours is way out of the normal range.  Please see a doctor ASAP.
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Here are the classifications for blood pressure readings per the JNC 7 guidelines (The Seventh Report on the Joint National Commitee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure):\n\nNormal <120 over <80\nPrehypertension 120-139 over 80-89\nStage 1 hypertension 140-159 over 90-99\nStage 2 hypertension >160 over >100\n\nMake shure you let your doctor know what your blood pressure readings are at home.  This will help him/her adjust your therapy if needed.
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Here's all the information you need about blood pressure http://www.webmd.com/content/article/96/103783.htm
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High blood pressure is blood pressure above what is "appropriate" for the body.  Right now, for most folks, that's taken as being 135/87 or less; for some groups, you want it 120/70.\n\nThere are many effects; the heart is damaged, both by having to adapt to the excess load caused by pumping harder and by there not being enough blood-flow on occasion to power the increased work; the kidneys are damaged by having to adapt to the higher pressures (as well as by damage directly from the pressure); strokes can happen, too.\n\nI'm running off memory, here, so I'm sure others will list things that I have forgotten...
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hi...Well first of all let me inform U that the Blood pressure cannot come on ODD no scale..It could either be 100 or 102 systolic  and  66 or 68 diastolic..But the BP llike 101/67 is approx only..Now let me tell U one biggest fact.Its that just by knowing one's BP, you can never or should never say that the person is hypertensive or hypotensive..It varies with person to person and with disease stuatus and with mental status and with your natural surrounding..Even the best of the Doc in the world can't find the exact cut off range..So Noone can exactly say if 101/67 is high or low..However assuming that you aren't having other problems, I must say that 101/67mm Hg is very normal...Just relax..Take coffee and it'll be fine..Don't panic..