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Controlling Your High Blood Pressure By Monitoring Your Pulse Rates

Your success in controlling your high blood pressure is ensured by keeping a record of your pulse rates, weight loss or even the waist line. Tracking the progress involves monitoring as to what the heart is doing. Hence, one way of assessing the improvement of high blood pressure is via the pulse rates.

To determine high blood pressure, pulse rates can be taken from any parts of the body with the wrist as the most preferred. All that is needed is a watch or clock with a second hand. Never use a stopwatch.

Initially get the pulse by placing the elbow as high as the heart on a table. This can be improved later on without the table, by holding the arm up in the air. This can be done any time during a typical day, after exercise or when you feel like taking your pulse rate.

Place the left hand to the right wrist, if you are right-handed and vice versa, using two or three fingers with the palm positioned upwards. Try to get a steady beat for a full minute. As soon as you have acquainted yourself to the beat, the full minute number of beats can be reduced to number of beats per ten seconds and multiply it by six to get the pulse rate per minute.

The peripheral pressure, the transporting of blood to the muscles and the skin by the arterioles and veins, as well as the speed by which the heart pumps out blood, are all responsible in the number of beats per minute Hence, a lower pulse rate is like having a lower blood pressure. Generally, the average pulse rate is 70 beats per minute.

The pulse rate is affected by many factors, like eating, drinking, exercise, anxiety and tension. If one is consistent in getting the pulse rate at the same time each day, this can be used as a basis in setting up a basis for lowering the high blood pressure, taking into consideration the factors mentioned.

In most cases, the resting pulse rate can be reduced by an exercise program, attaining an ideal weight and improved diet. Always start on a slow exercise with proper doctor consultation. Aside from exercise, meditation or mental conditioning can reduce pulse rate and blood pressure.

There are many ways to get the blood pressure nowadays. There are the coin-operated machines in stores, battery-operated gadgets or the conventional type known as sphygmomanometer.

To get the blood pressure using the sphygmomanometer, wrap the cuff or band around the arm to stop the flow of blood. Place a stethoscope to an artery below the band then slowly release the band. When the blood begins to flow, the systolic pressure or high number comes through. The beats will stop to pave the way for the diastolic pressure or low number and the sound becomes steady.

To operate, the band is pumped then pressure is released from a mercury sensing device. This is commonly seen in most doctor's office. In like manner, there are already new electronic devices that can sense sensitive and objective sounds, hence, the stethoscope is no longer needed.

It is important to take blood pressure and pulse rates daily by yourself, by others or by a doctor. In some cases, some patient's tend to be on edge when a doctor takes his blood pressure, causing an artificial rise in pressure.This is termed as white-coat hypertension.

Controlling your high blood pressure by monitoring your pulse rates in a diary will help monitor the wear and tear the body is receiving. As such, proper control in weight and intakes of sugar and cholesterol rich foods should be avoided.

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What is the connection between ones pulse-rate/heart-beat and blood pressure?

Just wanted to understand if the blood pressure decreases if the heart rate slows down and vice-versa. Similarly, does an increase in pulse-rate signify an increase in blood pressure?

The short answer to both your questions is "no" - it doesn't work like that.

But both your systolic and diastolic pressures are directly related by very simple mathematical equations to your pulse rate. If you want to know them, then feel free to email me.

EDIT: I'm sorry to have to contradict you Melmo, but you are quite mistaken. The pulse rate is inextricably linked to all the blood-pressures and the mutual relationships between them are crucial to understanding how they work. They govern when BP's rise if pulse rate rises, and when they fall instead. They determine why and when BP
sometimes they stay the same. And they show why and how they frequently do the opposite thing, -one falling while the other rises...

These relationships are so precise that they may be expressed algebraically. Simply not knowing what they are is not grounds, -surely, for saying they don't exist? All it means is that, despite the fact they have been staring you in the face for over a hundred years, you (and in fairness, the whole of the medical profession too!) haven't recognized them.
As Levick said, "In a subject so complex as cardiovascular Physiology it is often difficult to see the wood for the trees."

I'm not sure what you do "in the medical field" but I extend the same warm invitation to you as I did to the asker of the question, to email me, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to show you what you say doesn't exist -the precise relationship between pulse rate, systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressures.

Further, I'd love dearly to show you the relationship between pulse rate and so-called "mean arterial pressure", - but sadly, it doesn't exist, except in the minds of the collective imaginations of doctors and the medical profession.

Now, -I can well envisage you asking what the difference is between me asserting something doesn't exist and you asserting something doesn't exist?

The answer is simple. I'm blind to the trees, but I have a perfect view of the wood ! - I'm a Physicist, not a doctor, and come to the subject unencumbered with all the extraordinary baggage of tosh taught to students by Old Doctors too intellectually idle to ask the question "Why?", when the numbers don't add up, and just let it go with the feeble "Well.. It's not precise science, you know.."

EDIT: Helen. - Yes, it is {Pd = N x Pp x C x R} where Pd is diastolic pressure.
N is pulse rate, Pp is pulse pressure, C is the aortal wall compliance, and R the total resistance to flow presented by the vascular loop between the aortic valve and the venous pool.

EDIT: -Helen. In reply to your two questions, the equation is only the Law of Flow (corrected, to eliminate the mistakes of orthodox medicine, -but it works even if the mistakes aren't corrected).
Thus (N x Pp x C) equals cardiac output CO, and the pressure difference required to drive this (CO) across a total resistance R is R/CO..
(Not so-called "TPR" incidentally)

Q.E.D.

As regards your second question, no, Pd doesn't necessarily rise if pulse rate N rises -especially at rest. It's entirely dependent on cardiac output and how it's handled by vasodilatation (& constriction of course). If CO remains constant (as it essentially does at rest) then N and R simply vary inversely as each other, and this keeps both sides of the equation balanced. This explains why under relaxed conditions diastolic pressure stays virtually constant.

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