3. It is a common untrained assumption that systolic blood pressure should be 100 plus a...
3. It is a common untrained assumption that systolic blood pressure should be 100 plus a person's age. Discuss the validity of this statement.
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Systolic Blood Pressure is roughly considered as 100+ age of the person in years
Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP)
As we age the SBP increases because of decreased distensibility of arteries , as their walls becomes more rigid with advancing age , that’s they start loosing their elasticity, the lumen tends to get rigid with age, posing resistance to the blood flowing in arterial vessels, therefore SBP tends to shoot up as we age.
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