What does SP stand for?

Systolic Pressure

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Hypertension, or high blood pressure is called "the silent killer" because people often don't know they have it ** Systolic Pressure (the top number on your reading) reflects the pressure in your arteries when the heart beats ** Diastolic Pressure (the bottom number) reflects the arterial pressure between heartbeats.

Blood pressure and you: what you don't know can hurt you

Of those that were aware, less than half had their high blood pressure under control (less than 140mmHg for systolic pressure and 80 for diastolic pressure).

More than 50 percent of people with high BP unaware they have ...

Repeating the blood pressure measurement using a sphygmomanometer may reveal a systolic pressure as low as 26 mmHg below the automatic reading.

Patient doesn't look right

Keeping systolic pressure below 120 mm Hg before age 35 may provide important health benefits later in life.

Long-term effects of increased blood pressure increasingly troubling

Systolic pressure measures cardiac output and refers to the pressure in the arterial system at its highest.

What Is Hypertension

The first larger number is known as the systolic pressure.

BLOOD PRESSURE; Family casebook

Results of this study indicate that the application of carvacrol decreased heart rate, systolic pressure, diastolic pressure and mean arterial pressure in normotensive rats and exhibited a marked hypotensive effect.

Hypotensive effects of carvacrol

Assessment of systolic pressure variation There is a growing interest in the clinical value of the observed variations in blood pressure and cardiac output that result from the interactions between the heart and lungs during ventilation.

Acute volume therapy remains a controversial issue, with many ...