Q: What two values does a blood pressure reading include?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Blood pressures are expressed in millimeters of mercury. What would be the blood pressure in atmospheres if a patient’s systolic blood pressure is 120 mmHg and the diastolic blood pressure is 82 mmHg? (In medicine, such a blood pressure would be reported as “120/82,” spoken as “one hundred twenty over eighty-two.

 Choices:

- biotic and abiotic

- high and low

- cholesterol and systolic

- systolic and diastolic


A:
systolic and diastolic