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Blood pressure is a key component to keeping you alive. If its too high, we call it [[hypertension]], too low, [[hypotension]]. | |||
===Diastolic blood pressure=== | ===Diastolic blood pressure=== | ||
The pressure at the point when the ventricles in the [[heart]] are filling with [[blood]] | The pressure at the point when the ventricles in the [[heart]] are filling with [[blood]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:06, 31 January 2016
Blood pressure is a key component to keeping you alive. If its too high, we call it hypertension, too low, hypotension.
Diastolic blood pressure
The pressure at the point when the ventricles in the heart are filling with blood
Systolic blood pressure
The pressure at the point when the ventricles in the heart are contracting and pumping blood out.