Learning the Basics about High Blood PressureDear Dr. Donohue: My blood pressure is 164 over 84. Is thishigh for an 84-year-old man? Does...By Dr. Paul Donohue
Veins –carry blood back to the heart. Veins contain valves to help keep blood flowing in the right direction. The Human Circulatory System. Fun ideas for learning about blood What is blood? Blood contains: red blood cells –carry oxygen around the body white blood cells –destroy pathogens ...
Blood pressure is the amount of force (hydrostatic pressure) that pushes the blood through the vascular system. Pressure drops gradually as the large arterial vessels branch resulting in lower venous pressures (compared to artery pressure) as the blood progresses through the closed loop system. Blood...
BackgroundAlthough invasive methods are currently used to monitor blood pressure (BP) for intensive care patients, accurate and timely non-invasive BP monitoring in non-invasive way is still significant. Yet, physiological signal data of patients is irregular, with more noise and abnormal patterns in...
In this work, we propose a feature exploration method for learning-based cuffless blood pressure measurement. More specifically, to efficiently explore a large feature space from the photoplethysmography signal, we have applied several analytical techniques, including random error elimination, adaptive outl...
Adams and her colleagues reviewed data from 201 children, ages 10 to 18, who were referred to a hypertension clinic because of their high blood pressure. About half had hypertension while half did not (a referral does not necessarily mean a child has hypertension.) Sign up for the Live Scie...
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Relationships among blood pressure, triglycerides and verbal learning in African Americans. J Natl Med Assoc 2008;100(10):1193-8.Sims RC, Madhere S, Gordon S et al. Relationships among blood pressure, triglycerides and verbal learning in African Americans. J Natl Med Assoc 2008; 100: 1193-8...
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Not reserved only for doctors and nurses, healthcare courses are also used to train customers and distributors on medical technology. These online courses allow partners to learn about the features and benefits of medical equipment and let patients use health devices like blood pressure cuffs, gluco...