Zusammenfassung der Ressource
blood pressure
- decreasing blood pressure -
- relaxing, having a short rest,
- how blood pressure gets to high
- obesity, working to hard, stress, illnesses can also affect blood pressure.
- facts!
- Blood pressure is measured in
millimetres of mercury
(mmHg) and is given as 2
figures: systolic pressure – the
pressure when your heart
pushes blood out diastolic
pressure – the pressure when
your heart rests between
beats
- High blood pressure
(also referred to as
HBP, or
hypertension) is
when your blood
pressure, the force
of blood flowing
through your blood
vessels, is
consistently too high