Posts Tagged ‘blood pressure’

How to Take Blood Pressure

Before you learn about reading your blood pressure or someone else’s, here are a few notes on how your heart operates and how blood is pumped through your arteries. When you listen to your heart beat through a stethoscope, you hear a rhythm that resembles a “lub-dub, lub-dub” sound. This indicates your blood pressure, or [...]

How to Lower Blood Pressure

The heart is an organ that really works overtime. It beats non-stop to provide enough oxygen and nutrients for the other organs of the body, and at the same time, it circulates waste from cellular processes so they can be eliminated from the body. It has been noted before that cardiovascular disease is the number [...]