{"id":301,"date":"2015-04-21T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=301"},"modified":"2023-10-19T16:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:20:14","slug":"5-1-what-is-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=301","title":{"rendered":"5.1 What is blood pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 5px solid #d20000; height:; background-color:#ffffff;    '>\r\n                            <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b90uJOo-Xw4?si=mQxFkFexWNAuT1w1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\n<p>Blood pressure refers to the force (pressure) with which the blood presses against the walls of the blood vessel.<\/p>\n<p>All blood vessels&#8211;large or small, artery or vein&#8211;have blood pressure. However, the term blood\u00a0pressure normally refers to the blood pressure of a major artery.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the other vital signs discussed previously, it takes two numbers&#8211;the systolic pressure and the diastolic pressure&#8211;to describe this vital sign.<\/p>\n<p>Blood pressure is normally measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). &#8220;Millimeters of mercury&#8221; is a standard unit for measuring pressure. It refers to how high a force (pressure) would cause a column of mercury (chemical symbol Hg) to rise in a tube.<\/p>\n<p>Figure 5-1 gives the general idea. The greater the pressure, the more mercury is forced up the tube.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MD0531_img_24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-304\" src=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MD0531_img_24-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Figure 5-1. &quot;Millimeters of mercury&quot; as a measure of pressure.\" width=\"474\" height=\"266\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MD0531_img_24-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MD0531_img_24.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 5-1. &#8220;Millimeters of mercury&#8221; as a measure of pressure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood pressure refers to the force (pressure) with which the blood presses against the walls of the blood vessel. All blood vessels&#8211;large or small, artery or vein&#8211;have blood pressure. However, the term blood\u00a0pressure normally refers to the blood pressure of a major artery. Unlike the other vital signs discussed previously, it takes two numbers&#8211;the systolic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5.1 What is blood pressure?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions\/808"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}