What is blood pressure?īlood pressure is an index of the pressure generated in the circulatory system during a cardiac cycle. May be we should start with the definition of blood pressure first. Saves me writing the same response all the time.Īnd if you are not one of those people in that forum, well, you are in luck, because you will now know the answer in advance of other people.īefore I delve into why resting blood pressure measurements are important, let me quickly talk about why we measure blood pressure at all in the first place. That way I can just direct such enquiries here. So, I felt it will be a good idea to write this resting blood pressure piece here.
I have lost count of how many times I have had to answer this question in our blood pressure forum. Why don’t we measure blood pressure when we are active instead? Does resting blood pressure represent our true blood pressure? Some of the commonest questions that bothers peope with high blood pressure is why do we measure resting blood pressure. You are also going to know what blood pressure is why we measure blood pressure at all in the first place, and I also discuss what ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is and when and why we do it. On this page you are going to learn about why we measure resting blood pressure.
