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Five vital signs

Heart Rate

Blood Pressure

Temperature

Respiratory rate

Blood oxygen

Heart rate:

BPM=beats per minute

Normal range is 60-100 beats per minute

Heart rate is not similar to blood pressure

How fast the heart is going

Usually if you are more fit your heart doesnt have to pump as much

Things that affect heart rate are age, hormones, size of heart, medicine, and strength of heart

To measure heart rate, you check your pulse and count how many beats your heart does for 15 secs, you then multiply that number by four. 

Blood Pressure

The amount of Pressure on the walls of your arteries

Arteries move blood away from heart, veins move blood to heart. 

Blood pressure is measured in the arteries

The lower number is diastolic is the resting pressure in the vesse

Blood pressure is measurement of force applied to the artery walls. 

Normal blood pressure is 120/80

Higher number (systolic)  is measured at the bulge

Diastolic number should be 60/80

Systolic number should be 80/120

140-90 is hypertension

Things that make BP go up are

High salt diet, alcohol, obesity, inactive, genetics, smoking, stress, 

8-20 average respitory rate. Number of breaths per minute

Blood oxygen is the amount of oxygen in your blood. The average percentage is 95-100%. Some things that can affect this are, medicines, respitory disorders, and anemia.

The average temperature is 98.6 or 37 celcius.