Similar words: pressure, acupressure, air pressure, pressure group, pressure point, pressure cooker, pressurise, pressurize. Meaning: n. the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the heart; sometimes measured for a quick evaluation of a person's health.
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61. Among blacks in general, the risk of death from both stroke and high blood pressure remain significantly higher than for whites.
62. Blood pressure and lumbago have left these shrimps - pink and puffed as a rowing eight, slumped over their needles.
63. It's a good idea to ask your doctor to check your blood pressure each visit.
64. A second nurse takes my blood pressure and checks my pulse.
65. But raised blood pressure is an early warning sign and is one of the simplest and cheapest checks that can be done.
66. After that[sentencedict.com/blood pressure.html], a simple change to a new blood pressure medication solved the problem for good.
67. Take the example of a very overweight woman with high blood pressure and angina whose cholesterol level is normal.
68. Those substances increase the heart rate and blood pressure, and may increase the substances that help form clots.
69. As soon as we stop exerting ourselves the blood pressure returns to normal again.
70. Doctors first thought it reduced blood pressure by relaxing the blood vessels, Rubin said.
71. Catheters were inserted into the femoral artery and vein for blood pressure recordings and drug administration, respectively.
72. These include raised blood pressure and raised blood cholesterol levels.
73. But high blood pressure makes the heart work harder resulting in heart disease.
74. The diet worked especially well for those with high blood pressure, producing reductions similar to those from single-drug therapy.
75. That diet lowered their blood pressure as much as a typical blood-pressure-lowering medication would.
76. But his history of asthma and a problem with high blood pressure had kept him out.
77. Stressors of all kinds can elevate blood pressure and induce sudden constriction of the coronary arteries.
78. Walking is a prevention against heart and circulatory disorders and may lower blood pressure.
79. If a patient is deeply shocked, measurement of peripheral blood pressure may be very low or difficult to record.
80. Additional reasons for checking the blood pressure are marked retinopathy or any evidence of proteinuria.
81. If a doctor treats a patient with high blood pressure he records blood pressure levels before, during and after treatment.
82. He even considered fetching his sphygmomanometer and taking his blood pressure, simply out of curiosity.
83. He has lost some weight, and his blood pressure is under much better control.
84. The two groups were strictly similar for all variables, especially for initial blood pressure and urinary albumin excretion.
85. She was in a coma at first, and then she suffered complications because her blood pressure became unstable.
86. The temporary rise in blood pressure increases the oxygen requirements and creates an extra burden on the heart.
87. A diabetic, she spent two days in the hospital last week when stress sent her blood pressure rocketing.
88. Renin and atrial natriuretic peptide restriction fragment length polymorphisms: association with ethnicity and blood pressure.
89. One acupuncture patient was able to lower his blood pressure from more than 240 to 180 without drugs.
90. Indeed, the lower the blood pressure the better, because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks.
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