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the force of your blood arguing with your artery walls, 24/7, no lunch breaks.
means the pressure exerted by circulating blood against the walls of your arteries, measured as systolic over diastolic.
from first measured directly in 1733 by stephen hales, who stuck a brass pipe into a horse's artery and watched blood shoot up a glass tube nine feet high; the cuff-based method we use today came from riva-rocci in 1896 and korotkoff's stethoscope trick in 1905.
the numbers120/80 means systolic pump over diastolic rest
silent killeroften zero symptoms until organ damage starts
one bad readingmeans nothing, doctors want repeated averages
white coat effectjust seeing a doctor can spike it
for instance
korotkoff sounds — the whooshing noises doctors listen for through a stethoscope
sphygmomanometer — the cuff-and-gauge device invented by riva-rocci in 1896