What is Pulse Pressure ?
120/80 mmHg. The number on the left is the maximum pressure your heart exerts while beating called systolic pressure,while the right is the amount of pressure in your arteries between beats,your diastolic pressure. Before train anyone,I make sure I know some of their vital values.Many parameter can't be evaluate bedside or seen with naked eyes but many signs ,symptoms and values will correlate with a problem. The numeric difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure is called pulse pressure. For example, if your resting blood pressure is 120/80 mm Hg, your pulse pressure is 40. Increase in BP with age is mostly related to large artery stiffness .Observations suggested that a high salt diet may induce changes in the vascular smooth muscle cells resulting in collagen accumulation in the large artery walls and consequent increased arterial stiffness. Stroke and heart diseases are the major causes of death in people over 65 years of age. The most common treata
