Paul's blood pressure is 150/90. The 150 indicates _________ , an...

Question

Paul's blood pressure is 150/90. The 150 indicates _________ , and the 90 indicates _________ . 
a. pressure in the left ventricle; pressure in the right ventricle 
b. pressure during ventricular contraction; pressure during heart relaxation 
c. systemic circuit pressure; pulmonary circuit pressure 
d. pressure in the arteries; pressure in the veins

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. Today we have the long term abnormally high blood pressure is called. Which of these following terms? Well let's begin by answer choices C. And the systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure. The reason why we're looking at these together is that these refer to ventricular blood pressure in the heart at certain points of the process of pumping blood because of this. This is not really a condition which is caused by abnormally high blood pressure over time. So we're going to cancel these two up. Then we're left with hypertension or hypertension. Well as it turns out a long term abnormally high blood pressure is a condition that is very well known called hypertension. So we're going to highlight Answer choice B as a final answer to our question. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one.

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