One Twenty Over Eighty » pressure variations http://www.onetwentyovereighty.com Controlling High Blood Pressure Mon, 25 May 2009 17:46:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Blood pressure variations during the day http://www.onetwentyovereighty.com/blood-pressure-experiments/blood-pressure-variations-during-the-day/ http://www.onetwentyovereighty.com/blood-pressure-experiments/blood-pressure-variations-during-the-day/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:23:25 +0000 Andy http://www.onetwentyovereighty.com/?p=41 In this first of many blood pressure experiments, I used a home blood pressure monitor (upper arm cuff), to measure my blood pressure during my waking day.

The readings were not taken at specific intervals, and I have made no attempt to show on this graph when I ate food, did exercise, drank coffee, or anything else that might affect blood pressure. The whole point of this experiment was just to see how my blood pressure varied throughout the day.

Here are my results:

Time
Upper (systolic)
Lower (diastolic)
08:12
131
88
09:44
139
89
11:36
139
85
13:45
135
86
15:02
130
84
16:37
138
87
17:34
127
78
18:09
119
76
19:28
135
82
20:45
122
78
21:50
115
72
22:46
122
75

Average Blood pressure over the day: 129/82

Here is the chart of this data:

fluctuationsduringtheday

The fluctuations were not as big as I anticipated, but one thing I have noticed is that my blood pressure does tend to reduce as the evening progresses.

We have to be careful to draw any conclusions from this blood pressure data, but clearly, there is some variation during the day.

I will be looking at specific influences in other experiments, and how they affect my blood pressure, so look out for those. They will be listed down the left of this page.

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