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Home Health: Manual vs. Digital Blood Pressure Monitors Heart attack and stroke are just a few of the dangers associated with high blood pressure. Considering the seriousness of it, it’s easy to see why keeping track of your blood pressure can be very beneficial to you. Not only will it help you keep track, but [...]

10 Steps to Accurate Manual Blood Pressure Measurement Working for a company that develops blood pressure monitoring devices and technologies, I deal with blood pressure on some level every day. We make accurate and reliable blood pressure measurement our business…literally. So, it only makes sense that we should care about accurate blood pressure measurement from [...]

Back to help topics index Reports Click on the Print report… task to see a print preview of a report on your blood pressure readings. An example of a two page report is displayed below: Click on the Print button to print the report. Click on the Page Setup button to change the margins and [...]

Fainting (syncope) is a sudden, brief loss of consciousness. Fainting occurs if brain function is disturbed. Dizziness and light-headedness are common, but other symptoms can occur depending on the cause of fainting. Doctors may use tilt-table testing and tests of heart function to try to determine the cause of fainting. Usually, lying flat causes the [...]

Buy the Book Print This Topic Email This Topic Pronunciations angina angiotensin arrhythmia arterioles atrial atrial fibrillation bradycardia cardiomyopathy echocardiography electroencephalography encephalography fibrillation hypertrophic cardiomyopathy hypocapnia micturition syncope myopathy orthostatic hypotension pericarditis pericardium prostate stenosis syncope vasovagal syncope Fainting (syncope) is a sudden, brief loss of consciousness. Fainting occurs if brain function is disturbed. Dizziness [...]

Buy the Book Update Me E-mail alerts The Merck Manual Minute Print This Topic Email This Topic Orthostatic (postural) hypotension is an excessive fall in BP when an upright position is assumed. The consensus definition is a drop of > 20 mm Hg systolic, 10 mm Hg diastolic, or both. Symptoms of faintness, light-headedness, dizziness, [...]

Buy the Book Print This Topic Email This Topic Pronunciations angina arterioles arteriolosclerosis arteriosclerosis atheroma atherosclerosis claudication computed tomography cytomegalovirus diabetes mellitus Helicobacter pylori monocytes pneumonia sclerosis triglycerides ultrasonography Atherosclerosis is a condition in which patchy deposits of fatty material (atheromas or atherosclerotic plaques) develop in the walls of medium-sized and large arteries, leading to [...]

Buy the Book Print This Topic Email This Topic Pronunciations amitriptyline amyloidosis angina angiotensin arrhythmia arterioles atrophy barbiturates bradycardia clonidine embolism furosemide infarction methyldopa myocardial neurologic pulmonary embolism tachycardia uterus vena cava Low blood pressure (hypotension) is blood pressure low enough to cause symptoms such as dizziness and fainting. Various drugs and disorders can cause [...]

High Blood Pressure High blood pressure (hypertension) is blood pressure that is consistently higher than normal. Blood pressure is the force exerted by blood against the walls of arteries (the blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body). The “tension” part of “hypertension” does not imply being tense or [...]

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