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Presión arterial / sanguínea, tensión
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Blood pressure, английский
- A measure of the force of blood flow against veins and arteries.
- Presión sanguínea
- The pressure, measured in millimetres of mercury, at which the blood is pumped round the body by the heart high blood pressure or raised blood pressure a level of blood pressure which is higher than usual ‘…raised blood pressure may account for as many as 70% of all strokes. the risk of stroke rises with both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in the normotensive and hypertensive ranges. blood pressure control reduces the incidence of first stroke and aspirin appears to reduce the risk of stroke after tias’ [british journal of hospital medicine] comment: blood pressure is measured using a sphygmomanometer. a rubber tube is wrapped round the patient’s arm and inflated and two readings of blood pressure are taken: the systolic pressure, when the heart is contracting and so pumping out, and the diastolic pressure, which is always a lower figure, when the heart relaxes. healthy adult values are considered to be 160/95, unless the patient is diabetic or has heart disease, when lower target values are set.
- A measurement of the pressure that the body’s blood is putting on the blood vessel walls.
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Azúcar en la sangre, glucosa, испанский
Envenenamiento de la sangre, septicemia, испанский
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