Introduction; General Information On Blood Pressure; Significance Of Blood Pressure Values - Hartmann TENSOVAL comfort Instructions For Use Manual

1. Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase
of this HARTMANN quality product.
Tensoval comfort is a fully
automatic blood pressure monitor
for self-measurement on the upper
arm which uses intelligent
measuring technology (Fuzzy Logic)
to take rapid and reliable
measurement of systolic and
diastolic blood pressure as well as
pulse rate using an oscillometric
measuring method.
2. General information on blood
pressure
2.1 Significance of blood
pressure values
To determine your blood pressure
you need to measure two values:
S ystolic (upper) blood pressure:
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is produced when the heart
contracts and pumps blood into
the blood vessels.
D iastolic (lower) blood pressure:
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this is the value measured when
the heart muscle is dilated and
again fills with blood.
B lood pressure readings are
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expressed in mmHg.
The World Health Organisation
(WHO) and the International
Society of Hypertension (ISH) have
developed the following classifica-
tion for blood pressure values:
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