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Why Should I Monitor My Blood Pressure At Home? By monitoring at home, you may manage your health in between
doctor visits. Home monitoring also provides you with a record of blood pressure measurements over time to give to your doctor - a valuable tool in monitoring hypertension.
Home monitoring may also help alleviate White Coat Hypertension. This term refers to the medical phenomena which causes many individuals’ blood pressure to be higher when taken in a medical office setting. That’s because many times the stress of being in the doctor’s office may cause blood pressure to rise as much as
What Is Blood Pressure?
The commonly used term “blood pressure” refers to the force or pressure that is exerted on the body’s arteries as blood flows through them. 
Each time the heart beats or contracts, it produces pressure in the arteries. This
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blood pressure is what moves blood through the body, supplying oxygen and nutrients to every organ.
When the heart contracts it sends blood out into the body. This force of blood within the arteries is called systolic
pressure.
The pressure that remains as
the heart relaxes between beats is called |
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diastolic pressure . |
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Blood pressure is |
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recorded as systolic | systolic | |
over diastolic, as | ||
diastolic | ||
shown here. | ||
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