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Blood Pressure and Its Importance

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

For every heart beat blood is pumping around your body and into your arteries. Systolic pressure is when your heart is at its highest pressure during beats, and when the heart is resting and the pressure falls, this is called diastolic pressure.
Maintaining a healthy blood pressure is extremely important in living a successful healthy and […]

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Normal Blood Pressure

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

The phrase “blood pressure” means the force that the blood exerts against the walls of the arteries. Everyone has blood pressure. It is the indicator of how hard the hard is working to push blood throughout the circulatory system.
Although blood pressure alters during the course of the day based on physical activity, a reading of […]

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Blood Pressure - The Basic Facts

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

What is Blood Pressure?
Blood Pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. Blood Pressure is recorded as two numbers. For example 120/80.The larger number indicates the pressure in the arteries as the heart squeezes out blood during each beat. It is called the Systolic Blood Pressure. The lower number […]

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