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Question
What is blood pressure? What are the two factors used to express the blood pressure of a person?
Solution
Blood pressure is the pressure at which the blood is pumped around the body by the heart. It is always expressed in the form of two factors that are called systolic pressure and diastolic pressure.
- Systolic pressure is the pressure at which the blood leaves the heart through the aorta during the contraction phase.
- Diastolic pressure is the minimum pressure in the arteries during the relaxation phase of the heart.
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