Blood Pressure Lab

The blood pressure test ranged from females age 11-54 and males 11-54. You would pick which age group you wanted to choose from and then you would cheek there blood pressure. There were a couple things that were listed on there chart as the reason they had high blood pressure. The reason we lack of exercise, family history of hypertension, high salt diet and alcohol consumption. The higher in age we got it was mostly high due to the lack in exercise. So what is blood pressure exactly? Blood pressure refers to the force by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels and constitutes one of the principal vital signs. The pressure decreases as blood moves through arteries, arteries, arterioles, capillaries and veins. Blood pressure usually is about arterial pressure which is pressure in the large arteries, and arteries. This is the blood that takes the blood away from the heart

Pulse: In this lab we also learned how to take a pulse. In order to take a pulse this is what you have to do. The artery on the thumb side of the wrist. Touch this area lightly until you feel your pulse or heart beat. Count the amount of heart beats for 15 seconds and multiply by four this will give you your daily pulse rate. This pulse is different from everybody is only the indicator of your resting plus rate. Normal for me 72 beats per min. For women 80 beats per min either side of those rates fall into the normal range