How Do You Take Blood Pressure Readings?
Learn how to take blood pressure readings; it could save your life. Blood pressure is the pressure against the wall of the artery as the blood is pumped throughout the body. Blood pressure readings change throughout the day. It’s the lowest when you sleep and rises when you get up, are excited, nervous, or active. Blood pressure pretty much stays the same when you are sitting still or standing for a while. Blood pressure readings are given in two numbers, systolic and diastolic. Both numbers are important and written one above the other number. Blood pressure is recorded as a fraction. The top number is the systolic number and the bottom number is the diastolic number. The systolic is the larger number and written on top and the diastolic number is the smaller number written on the bottom for example, the normal blood pressure reading for an adult is 120/80. When you tell someone their blood pressure you would say 120 over 80. Hypertension is when you have high blood pressure. The read
