Health: Checking Your Blood Pressure at Home May Save Your Life
The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) defines blood pressure as a measure of your heart’s force to pump blood around your body. It is determined by the amount of blood your heart can pump and the amount of resistance to blood flow in your arteries. Blood pressure can either be high or low. High blood pressure – also known as hypertension – is a state where the long-term force of the blood against your artery walls is high enough that…