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What is blood pressure in simple terms?
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Vital sign!: It is the pressure exerted by circulating blood on the arteries.Duringe each heart beat during systoly is systolic BP and during diastole is the diastolic bp.It is an important vital sign!
Answered 9/28/2019
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