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IV. Miscellaneous

Knowledge on Blood Pressure

Your heart is just like a pump which causes the blood
to circulate through all vessels. As a result, the blood
pressure is the pressure on the wall of the blood vessel
pressed by blood. The output of blood from the heart
when it is a systole is called systolic pressure. The blood
returning to the heart when it is a diastole is called
diastolic pressure.
Blood pressure fluctuates continually — day and night. The highest value usu-
ally appears in the daytime and lowest one usually at midnight. Typically, the
value begins to increase at around 3:00AM, and reaches to highest level in the
daytime while most people are awake and active.
For this reason it is recommended to measure your blood pressure each day at
the same time.
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