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What you should know about blood pressure
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Operating the unit
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When the Memory button
is pressed again, the value
measured last (No. 1) appears.
When the date/time function
is activated, systole, diastole
and pulse are displayed alter-
nately with memory number
(Figure 3) and date (Figure 4),
followed by the pulse pressure
(PP) and the time (Figure 5).
Deleting data
Press the Memory button repeatedly to call up further measured values.
The stored data remain visible in the display for around 30 seconds. The
unit then switches itself off.
Figure 4 Figure 3 Figure 5
To delete individual measured values, press the Memory button repeatedly
to call up the desired measured value.
Then press and hold the Memory button again for 8–10 seconds until the
measured value flashes several times and then goes out.
To delete the entire memory, retrieve the average value then press and
hold the Memory button again for 8–10 seconds until the measured value
flashes several times and then goes out.
If no value is stored, there is no display.
The cardiovascular system has the important function of supplying all
organs and tissues in the body with sufficient amounts of blood and of
transporting metabolites. For this, the heart contracts and expands at a
regular rate of about 60 to 80 times per minute. The pressure of the flow-
ing blood on the artery walls caused by the heart contracting is termed
systolic. The pressure in the ensuing relaxation phase, when the heart re-
fills with blood, is termed diastolic. During daily measurement you deter-
mine both values.
Our blood pressure responds to internal and external influences like a
sensitive measuring instrument. Affected by mental, physical and envi-
ronmental influences, it varies all the time and never remains constant.
Reasons for fluctuating blood pressure values can be: moving, speaking,
eating, consuming alcohol or nicotine, nervousness, inner tension, emo-
tions, room temperature, recent urination or bowel movements, environ-
mental influences such as movements and sounds, etc. Even changes in
the weather and climate can have an effect on your blood pressure. This
explains why values measured at the doctor are often higher than those
you obtain at home in your usual environment.
Even the time of day has an effect on your blood pressure. The values are
at their highest during the day. In the course of the afternoon and in the
evening, they drop slightly. They are low while you are sleeping, but rise
again relatively quickly once you get up. One-off and irregular measure-
ments therefore say little about your actual blood pressure. A reliable
assessment is possible only when measurements are taken regularly. Dis-
cuss the measurement values with your doctor.
1. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure values
2. Reasons for measuring different values
3. Why you should measure blood pressure regularly