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    diastolic pressures is known as pulse pressure, while the average pressure during a cardiac cycle is known as mean arterial pressure. Blood pressure is one...
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  • Blood Pressures is the fourth studio album by indie rock band the Kills. It was released on April 1, 2011 in Australia, on April 4, 2011 in Europe, and...
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    Blood pressure is classified by two measurements, the systolic (first number) and diastolic (second number) pressures. For most adults, normal blood pressure...
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    mercury. For each heartbeat, blood pressure varies between systolic and diastolic pressures. Systolic pressure is peak pressure in the arteries, which occurs...
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    which are the maximum and minimum blood pressures within the cardiac cycle, respectively. A systolic blood pressure of less than 90 millimeters of mercury...
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    Ambulatory blood pressure, as opposed to office blood pressure and home blood pressure, is the blood pressure over the course of the full 24-hour sleep-wake...
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  • SFIG-moh-mə-NO-mi-tər), also known as a blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff...
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    the systolic and diastolic blood pressures. If sepsis becomes severe and hemodynamic compromise advances, the systolic pressure also decreases, causing a...
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  • as postural hypotension, is a medical condition wherein a person's blood pressure drops when they are standing up (orthostasis) or sitting down. Primary...
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  • treat hypertension (high blood pressure). Antihypertensive therapy seeks to prevent the complications of high blood pressure, such as stroke, heart failure...
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    one-third of the pulse pressure (the difference between the systolic and diastolic pressures), and add that amount to the diastolic pressure. A normal MAP is...
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    ankle blood pressures in a seated position will grossly overestimate the ABI (by approximately 0.3).[citation needed] A Doppler ultrasound blood flow detector...
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  • Blood pressure may also refer to: Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure Blood Pressure (film), a 2012 Canadian film Blood Pressures, the fourth...
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    first four albums, Keep On Your Mean Side, No Wow, Midnight Boom, and Blood Pressures, all reached the UK Albums Chart. Their fifth studio album, Ash & Ice...
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    on the probe, it can measure static pressures or stagnation pressures. There is a two-dimensional analog of pressure – the lateral force per unit length...
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    Pulse pressure is the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure. It is measured in millimeters of mercury (mmHg). It represents the force...
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    blood pressure, possibly reducing symptoms. Compression garments can also be of benefit by constricting blood pressures with external body pressure....
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    hypotension. Blood pressures are also taken at other portions of the extremities. These pressures are called segmental blood pressures and are used to...
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    blood volume. A patient is often tachycardic (rapid heart beat) with a reduction in the difference between the systolic and diastolic blood pressures...
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    when there are unexpected changes in blood pressure. The term can be used to describe when people have blood pressure measurements that abruptly fluctuate...
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    Baroreflex (category Blood pressure)
    active even at normal blood pressures so their activity informs the brain about both increases and decreases in blood pressure. The body contains two...
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  • Blood pressure medicine may refer to Antihypertensive drug (high blood pressure) Antihypotensive agent (low blood pressure) This disambiguation page lists...
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  • wrist, below the elbow, above the elbow, and mid-upper arm. "Segmental Blood Pressures for Vascular Diagnosis - Viasonix". viasonix.com. 2020-10-21. Retrieved...
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  • Hemodynamics (redirect from Blood flow)
    measuring the blood pressure with an inflatable blood pressure cuff. Hypertension is diagnosed by the presence of arterial blood pressures of 140/90 or...
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    abdomen). Pulse pressure, which is the difference between the systolic ("top number") and diastolic ("bottom number") blood pressures, is often low/narrow...
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    recommended. Initial treatments may include medications to lower blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors...
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    the pre-treatment blood pressures because the body has reached homeostasis at its abnormally high blood pressure. The blood pressure lowering effect becomes...
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  • in the blood pressure. One of the effector organs is the heart whose rate is stimulated to rise (tachycardia) when the arterial blood pressure falls,...
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  • organs. When blood pressures are critically high (>180/120 mm Hg) or the rate of rise in blood pressure is rapid, a large volume of blood circulating in...
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    others, is an α2A-adrenergic agonist medication used to treat high blood pressure, ADHD, drug withdrawal (alcohol, opioids, or nicotine), menopausal flushing...
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