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  • He's had high blood pressure for years.†   (source)
  • Obesity has been linked to heart disease, colon cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, infertility, and strokes.†   (source)
  • He also had ulcers and high blood pressure.†   (source)
  • She's on Diovan for the high blood pressure, Phenergan for the nausea, amoxicillin and streptomycin to keep her lymphatic system tamped down, but we're still struggling with the fever," Claire reports.†   (source)
  • He had congenital high blood pressure and mild asthma, which developed after he'd recovered from a possible case of tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • The monitors showed a normal blood pressure and heartbeat.†   (source)
  • No medical records indicate that he had any illness, other than high blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Medicine for arthritis and high blood pressure and high cholesterol, some taken with food and some without, and I'm told that I must always carry nitroglycerine pills in my pocket, in the event I ever again feel that searing pain in my chest.†   (source)
  • And this is why that black people is hypertension; more of us die from high blood pressure because of that strain.†   (source)
  • I had been diagnosed back in the Fortwith high blood pressure and had been given certain pills.†   (source)
  • Routine secondhand inquiries at the Federal Trade Commission confirmed the fact that its chairman, Albert Armbruster, did, indeed, have ulcers as well as high blood pressure and under doctor's orders left the office and returned home whenever discomfort struck him.†   (source)
  • Abuela is complaining that there was too much salt in the ropa vieja, that high blood pressure runs in the family, and that Rosario should be careful not to aggravate their condition.†   (source)
  • His mother was in bed with high blood pressure, though.†   (source)
  • Low blood pressure for a guy his age and physical condition.†   (source)
  • After seeing all the sugar and processed foods that my family ate, I wasn't surprised to find outMary Elizabeth had hypertension and high blood pressure.†   (source)
  • These periodic quarrels had a tranquillizing effect on both, like the application of leeches for high blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Her blood pressure came down with antihistamines?   (source)
    blood pressure = the force of circulating blood on the arteries
  • He's old and he smokes and he has high blood pressure.†   (source)
  • It drove our neighbor Mr. Kramer to high blood pressure, but my father reveled in it.†   (source)
  • High praise from the doctor with high blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Confusion, panic, and incoherent speech are all symptoms of extremely high blood pressure and blood sugar, which can lead to heart attack and stroke.†   (source)
  • I got anxiety, depression, degenerating kneecaps, bursitis, bulged discs in my back, diabetes, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, cholesterol.†   (source)
  • Because of my recent illness and my history of high blood pressure, I had been put on a strict low-cholesterol diet.†   (source)
  • He developed liver dysfunction, high blood pressure, back pains, chest pains.†   (source)
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  • Eventually a nurse led me to a small white room where she weighed me, took my blood pressure, and swabbed my tongue.†   (source)
  • She'd check Mom's blood pressure, and fart.†   (source)
  • I had developed something called disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), which meant my blood was not clotting, my blood pressure was very low and my blood acid had risen.†   (source)
  • Later, after they'd given me something, the nurse came in and she was kind of stroking my hand while she took my blood pressure and she said, "You know how I know you're a fighter?†   (source)
  • There's some sort of commotion outside that makes it hard for her to focus on taking the Admiral's blood pressure.†   (source)
  • They contain solanine, a poison that occurs in plants of the nightshade family, which causes vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and lethargy in the short term, and adversely affects heart rate and blood pressure when ingested over an extended period.†   (source)
  • There was some concern too about my blood pressure; my ankles were puffy, and I'd been told to lie with my feet up for as much as I could.†   (source)
  • At the hospital, an Amity woman in a yellow shirt with clean fingernails took my mother's blood pressure and set her bone with a smile.†   (source)
  • I checked his blood pressure again, wondering how long I should leave it before calling an ambulance.†   (source)
  • Then Carlos ventured, "Um, Jen, got any of your parents' blood pressure medicine handy?†   (source)
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  • Inflates the blood pressure cuff.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure zero, pulse rate zero, temperature normal.†   (source)
  • It was almost worth telling these lies to watch Fudges blood pressure rising, but he could not see how on earth he would get away with them; if somebody had tipped off Umbridge about the DA then he, the leader, might as well be packing his trunk right now.†   (source)
  • I would have liked to take his blood pressure.†   (source)
  • It'll collect data on your heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, heat flux, caloric intake, sleep duration, sleep quality, digestive efficiency, on and on.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure, diuretics, all sorts of skin creams.†   (source)
  • Rocher's men stood at sharp attention, nobody moving a muscle, although the information they had just received had increased their aggregate blood pressure by a few thousand points.†   (source)
  • The seniors had been trotted off to the improvised obstacle course in the woods, or to have their blood pressure taken again, or to undergo an insidious exercise in The Cage which consisted in stepping up on a box and down again in rapid rhythm for five minutes.†   (source)
  • Despite all the tension she places on herself—and others—the doctors have proclaimed that my mother, at age sixty-nine, has the blood pressure of a sixteen-year-old and the strength of a horse.†   (source)
  • BLOOD PRESSURE INCREASING.†   (source)
  • Heart rate, blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Driving up Root's blood pressure was one of the few perks of the job.†   (source)
  • My blood pressure's much too high as it is.†   (source)
  • Mama's blood pressure had risen dangerously after Patria's breakdown on the front lawn.†   (source)
  • When Ashoke arrives, Patty is taking Ashima's blood pressure, and Ashima is reclining against a pile of pillows, the child wrapped like an oblong white parcel in her arms.†   (source)
  • Chavez is having trouble getting a blood pressure reading or an EKG.†   (source)
  • No doubt seeing my frustration and doubt through her medical implants, fluctuations of my blood pressure and temperature and respiration.†   (source)
  • With him also came a new gadget for taking blood pressure.†   (source)
  • According to them, my blood pressure was as high as if I were drinking ten cups of coffee right before the test.†   (source)
  • I kept asking, "Are you sure you want to do this?" and "How's your blood pressure?" and "Does your doctor know you're doing this?"†   (source)
  • The war report continues, it goes on and on, my blood pressure rising with it, but eventually it ends and they go back to the studio and the newsreader says: "Kamal Abdic, the man arrested yesterday in connection with the disappearance of Megan Hipwell, has been released without charge.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure up to 190/100.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure's eighty over forty.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure.†   (source)
  • They put a thing around her arm-to measure the blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Her blood pressure gradually worsened, and she was losing what little function, purposeful movement, and response to stimuli she had.†   (source)
  • She says she's had a few miscarriages and her blood pressure problems have always prevented her from keeping a baby to term.†   (source)
  • She takes my temperature, blood pressure, heart and pulse rates before declaring that I am simply lovesick.†   (source)
  • All you need is the evidence of the ECG, blood pressure, fluid in the lungs, and unstable angina.†   (source)
  • Brittain, on the other hand, is having blood pressure difficulty, and explodes.†   (source)
  • We were running a lab on blood pressure, and Vee was supposed to be resting silently for five minutes.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure pills, stress pills, allergy pills, eye drops, aspirin.†   (source)
  • But she knew pretty well what the most vital ones should be saying, the ones that watched Grace's heartbeat and her brain and blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure rose in my face, blush.†   (source)
  • Her pulse and blood pressure are on the low side, but not enough to worry about.†   (source)
  • By then Kelley was already in induced labor and suffering from a literally blinding headache from the magnesium sulfate she'd received to lower her blood pressure.†   (source)
  • There wasn't enough blood left to maintain circulation, so his heartbeat was very sluggish, and his blood pressure was dropping toward zero.†   (source)
  • Fresh frozen plasma, warmed blood, and fluids had given Junior a recordable blood pressure and a respectable temperature.†   (source)
  • He hated fat people, thought they were weak and had no discipline, people who complained about their blood pressure and diabetes and heart problems and whined about the cost of medicine, but couldn't summon the strength to put the fork down.†   (source)
  • Then she pulls the blood pressure cuff from the wall.†   (source)
  • And his son had come for medicine for his blood pressure.†   (source)
  • We took one another's blood pressure, listened to one another's hearts, and practiced drawing blood on one another.†   (source)
  • Gus and Wes listened to Sergeant Towser with looks of stoic surprise and said not a word about their bereavement to anyone else until Doc Daneeka himself came in about an hour afterward to have his temperature taken for the third time that day and his blood pressure checked.†   (source)
  • A nurse— younger, wearing pink scrubs—took my blood pressure and temperature.†   (source)
  • I didn't have an appetite, but I opened the refrigerator anyway because the sy bbed the ma doctor told me I shouldn't go without eating, something to do with my blood pressure.†   (source)
  • I SAW on the callout that I was scheduled to spend my afternoon in a mandatory prerelease class on housing, and my blood pressure started to rise.†   (source)
  • Cypress's blood pressure was barely held in check by a collection of medications, and it could spike at the slightest hint of trouble.†   (source)
  • Addison's causes his body to fail to produce the necessary hormones, such as cortisol, that regulate blood pressure, cardiovascular function, and blood sugar.†   (source)
  • The whitecoats had the inevitable stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, etc. This was going to be amusing.†   (source)
  • In one part of her brain she was aware her vitals were being monitored: blood pressure, pulse, even the amount of sweat that crawled on her skin, the saliva that pooled and dried in her mouth.†   (source)
  • We have no money for blood pressure cuffs or stethoscopes.†   (source)
  • He was therefore considering abandoning the Army for a career as a scientist in private industry, where people did not care what your weight or blood pressure was.†   (source)
  • As I'm sure you gathered, I'm trying to clear my head and with any luck bring down my blood pressure.†   (source)
  • To raise Whitey's blood pressure a bit, Woolf started delaying his horses' rallies until the last possible second.†   (source)
  • Once under way I said, "Prof, what was it you said to Señor Jellybelly that raised blood pressure?"†   (source)
  • A nurse reported on her blood pressure—100/70—while the doctor put his stethoscope to her chest and listened to her heartbeat.†   (source)
  • That was when the stress of Marijke's illness and her being in the nursing home had pumped his blood pressure way up.†   (source)
  • Stink Harris grinned, and Cacciato packed away the basketball, and Frenchie Tucker complained about his blood pressure.†   (source)
  • It was supposed to lower their blood pressure.†   (source)
  • By monitoring his heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, brainwaves, eyelid movements, and changes in the electrical conductivity of his skin, they are able to detect a lie with better than ninety-nine-percent accuracy.†   (source)
  • It would help with her chest pain, but if her blood pressure was already low the nitro would push it lower still; that's just the way it worked.†   (source)
  • If I'd been afraid of heights like Finn, it would have made sense: dizziness, followed by a drop in blood pressure brought on by anxiety.†   (source)
  • Life heaves these things at us, chance gifts from its green waves: she'd noticed from the chart that she was about to see a thirty-six-year-old Chinese male, height five-ten, weight one hundred seventy pounds, blood pressure on the high side of normal but entirely normal nonetheless, in good health, reason for visit suspected bleeding hemorrhoids.†   (source)
  • His pulse was still rapid and weak, but his blood pressure was rising steadily, a positive development.†   (source)
  • He didn't look sick to me, but I took his pulse and blood pressure.†   (source)
  • By the way, how do you get him to let you take his blood pressure?†   (source)
  • The doctor checked his heartbeat, pulse, blood pressure, shined a light into his eyes and ears, and had him touch the tip of his nose a couple of times.†   (source)
  • Remember the blood pressure.†   (source)
  • and (3) Is the patient's systolic blood pressure below 100?†   (source)
  • Pulse fifty-eight, blood pressure ninety-eight over sixty-one.†   (source)
  • I took his pulse, and grabbed the blood pressure equipment.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure is one hundred over sixty-five, heart rate is ninety-four.†   (source)
  • She asked when my blood pressure had last been checked.†   (source)
  • Her temperature was too high, her heart rate too high, her blood pressure too high.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure, pulse, and temperature all seem OK.†   (source)
  • It must be some kind of blood pressure phenomenon.†   (source)
  • As I watched that scene, my blood pressure spiked even higher than it had been.†   (source)
  • Well, in the simulations, my blood pressure and heart rate would start out steady.†   (source)
  • Carla sits next to me on the couch, and I hold out my hand for the blood pressure cuff.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to tell anyone about the blood pressure, or anything else.†   (source)
  • But the thing that really bothered me was my blood pressure.†   (source)
  • And my blood pressure shot up again, even higher than before.†   (source)
  • My blood pressure had shot up and I couldn't sleep.†   (source)
  • I get blood pressure readings right down the hall.†   (source)
  • My blood pressure must have soared fifty points.†   (source)
  • We gave him several units of blood substitute, and it brought his blood pressure up to a safe range.†   (source)
  • Pulse, blood pressure, breathing, temperature.†   (source)
  • She checked the pulse, blood pressure, and lungs.†   (source)
  • My blood pressure is so high my entire body buzzes like the fluorescent lights above me.†   (source)
  • I was getting sick and tired of taking his blood pressure all the time.†   (source)
  • Her blood pressure's up to one-fifty," said the nurse.†   (source)
  • He told them about the aspirin, nitro, the fluids, and her blood pressure.†   (source)
  • To get his blood pressure just right would be easy at the Brigham.†   (source)
  • I admit to faking illness several times so that Alma would take my temperature or blood pressure.†   (source)
  • My blood pressure bloomed, my head pounded.†   (source)
  • There was a moment when Marion's blood pressure dropped precipitously.†   (source)
  • Weak but regular pulse, less regular breathing, blood pressure one hundred over seventy.†   (source)
  • "Blood pressure's a little high, borderline, but I don't think anything's broken," she pronounced.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure lowers, and vasoconstriction occurs, and both tend to stop the bleeding.†   (source)
  • His blood pressure was at the low end of normal.†   (source)
  • And it didn't screw with your blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Get his blood pressure down to normal, then get him two Canadian crutches.†   (source)
  • The old man's wife says she wants her blood pressure checked, too.†   (source)
  • Natalie checked Saladin's pulse, blood pressure, and lung function every thirty minutes.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure is excellent.†   (source)
  • I could hear beeping in the rooms next to mine, and it wasn't particularly dark, and well-meaning strangers kept showing up to pull blood out of my body and/or check my blood pressure, and most of all, I knew: I knew that C. dill was invading my body, that it was floating in the air.†   (source)
  • Bring the medical kit ....attach an IV to the needle ....infuse lactated Ringer's solution ....get me a blood pressure.†   (source)
  • He told her she needed to educate herself, learn the warning signs, know how to bring down her blood pressure and control her blood sugar.†   (source)
  • She gives it to him, but just to be on the safe side, she checks his blood pressure, and he applauds her for being so thorough.†   (source)
  • The doctor asked me to cough, took my temperature and blood pressure, applied his stethoscope, and announced that I had pleurisy with effusion, pre-tubercular.†   (source)
  • We indirectly monitored the swelling by measuring changes in heart rate and blood pressure and by periodic CT scans which give a three-dimensional X-ray picture of the brain.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure excellent.†   (source)
  • If So-and-so's blood pressure was high, she should be given hawthorn to stabilize the collagen and dilate the coronary blood vessels.†   (source)
  • The infusion of lactated Ringer's solution had successfully raised her blood pressure and quelled her throbbing headache.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure stabilizing.†   (source)
  • When I see the judge I will try to convey a positive attitude, while at the same time monitoring my blood pressure and other vital signs.†   (source)
  • His chest exam, heart exam, and ECG are normal, and his systolic blood pressure is 165, meaning it doesn't qualify as an urgent factor.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure.†   (source)
  • In all the excitement leading up to the ceremony, Sonny's blood pressure shot up dangerously high and he ended up in the hospital, nearly missing the whole event.†   (source)
  • So he has two meds for blood pressure, this to lower it at bedtime, this one to raise it when he gets out of bed.†   (source)
  • A nurse takes his blood pressure.†   (source)
  • They get all excited, tell me stuff like how her cells helped make my blood pressure medicines and antidepression pills and how all this important stuff in science happen cause of her.†   (source)
  • "MOVIE NIGHT OR Honor Pictionary or Book Club?" my mom asks while inflating a blood pressure cuff around my arm.†   (source)
  • His blood pressure was down.†   (source)
  • I felt my blood pressure rise.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily Carla, my full-time nurse, would be taking my blood pressure and filling out my daily health log, but my mom's given her the day off.†   (source)
  • When Deborah got to her doctor's office, her blood pressure and blood sugar were so high, her doctor was amazed she hadn't had a stroke or heart attack while we were in Clover.†   (source)
  • We watched some Japanese animated film that Will said was perfect hangover viewing, and I stuck around—partly because I wanted to keep an eye on his blood pressure and partly, to be honest, because I was being a bit mischievous.†   (source)
  • In truth, Dell knew that the twelve-year-old with the large eyes (who had told him to have his blood pressure checked just before she left) was anything but normal.†   (source)
  • He'd said many times that he wanted to see his wife's cells before he died, but he was eighty-five, in and out of the hospital with heart and blood pressure problems, and he'd just lost a leg to diabetes.†   (source)
  • When she checked herself into a hospital, saying, "Everything going on with my mother and sister is making my nerves break down," her doctor said her blood pressure was so high she'd nearly had a stroke.†   (source)
  • MY BLOOD PRESSURE WAS STILL ELEVATED.†   (source)
  • In my case, specifically, they monitored my blood pressure, or at least that was the one measurement that really interested me.†   (source)
  • Give it to him anyway...I'm telling you, the danger that he will die from HAPE before we can get him down is much, much greater than the danger that the nifedipine will reduce his blood pressure to a dangerous level.†   (source)
  • She took off her stethoscope and consulted the file again, tapping the clipboard with her finger, "Blood pressure is fine, we've gotten the urine sample already.†   (source)
  • Blood pressure rising.†   (source)
  • I could almost feel my blood pressure dropping, bit by bit, as I organized Heidi's pens, throwing out the ones that didn't work and making sure the rest had caps snugly on and were all facing upright in the pink mug where they lived.†   (source)
  • This was a completely different, foreign world, where kids swarmed freely through a zoo, animals were in habitats and weren't undergoing genetic grafting, and we were strolling along, not hooked up to EEG monitors and blood pressure cuffs.†   (source)
  • At each, there was one moment-an old man pinching my butt as I passed with scones; the moment Kristy and I collided and her tray bonked me in the nose, showering salmon and crudites down my shirt; the time when Bert had hit me with another gotcha, jumping out from behind a coat rack and sending the stacks of plates I was carrying, as well as my blood pressure, skyrocketing-when I wondered what in the world I'd been thinking taking this on.†   (source)
  • His blood pressure was dropping.†   (source)
  • You know, young man, I could easily hang up the phone and dismiss your existence, which would be quite beneficial for my blood pressure.†   (source)
  • -V. showed no signs of mental derangement, and his fever cooled, and he seemed to be stabilizing, but then suddenly, without warning, he had an acute fall in blood pressure—he was crashing—and he died.†   (source)
  • He said he was tired, and so she helped him into his bed, arranged his IV, glared at Lucien, then checked Lonny's blood pressure and pulse.†   (source)
  • He checked Jackson's blood pressure.†   (source)
  • His blood work showed high cholesterol, sucky liver enzymes, and a lot of white blood cells, which meant he had an infection somewhere, plus his blood pressure was through the roof.†   (source)
  • Though he suffered a life-threatening post-op complication—a medication-induced drop in blood pressure that landed him in the hospital—a week following the surgery, Adam was back to studying for his college courses.†   (source)
  • So Frenchie swore and took off his pack and boots and socks and helmet, stacked them neatly on a boulder, cussing, taking time, complaining how this would screw up his blood pressure.†   (source)
  • Can't stabilize my blood pressure.†   (source)
  • He traveled at the side of Diana, Lady Delamere, as her personal physician when she was growing old, to monitor her blood pressure and heartbeat (she wanted to carry on with her beloved sport of deep-sea fishing off the Kenya coast, although she had a heart condition), and he was also Beryl Markham's doctor.†   (source)
  • But we still had to pour fluid in to keep a blood pressure—it was like keeping a bucket full despite the holes in its side.†   (source)
  • They'd watched Frenchie go down, a big hairy guy who was scheduled to take the next chopper to the rear to have his blood pressure checked, a big guy who liked talking politics, a great big guy, so he'd been forced to go slowly, wiggling in bit by bit.†   (source)
  • Raises his blood pressure.†   (source)
  • He made his usual examination, looking at her pupils, listening to her breathing, taking her pulse and her blood pressure, and checking how she swallowed.†   (source)
  • The side effects, both short term and long term, are horrifying: increased blood pressure and heart rate, anxiety and paranoia, insomnia, severe depression, delirium, psychosis, auditory and tactile hallucinations, respiratory failure, brain seizures, heart attack, stroke, and sudden death.†   (source)
  • Conklin, in progressive apoplexy, had rushed to the kitchen sink, where his stress and blood pressure pills stood on the windowsill above the sink, and turned on the cold water.†   (source)
  • You have a blood pressure cuff here?†   (source)
  • And when Nurse Asqual in a panicked voice called out the blood pressure—"systolic of eighty, palpable"—Stone wobbled as if he might faint.†   (source)
  • She checked Saladin's pulse and blood pressure every thirty minutes and recorded his intake of IV solution.†   (source)
  • Farmer kneels on the dirt floor and takes the man's pulse and blood pressure, then puts on a stethoscope and listens to his chest for a while.†   (source)
  • They live good clean lives, stay married to the same woman, raise their kids, go to church on Sundays, watch their blood pressure, don't eat ice cream.†   (source)
  • Fluids got the blood pressure up.†   (source)
  • She wrapped the blood pressure cuff around the upper portion of his left arm and inflated it with several quick squeezes of the bulb.†   (source)
  • Gotten DHS's blood pressure up.†   (source)
  • Answering the page, he'd greet the hospital operator—whichever of the dozen or so came on line—and quickly ask about her blood pressure, or her husband's heart condition, or her mother's diabetes.†   (source)
  • Her blood pressure was sky-high.†   (source)
  • His heartbeat was slowing and growing stronger, his blood pressure was rising, the right lung was clearing.†   (source)
  • God bless my blood pressure.... Could you turn me into an ant?†   (source)
  • Masatsugu listened to his grandfather's breathing and heartbeat and took his blood pressure; he judged his condition stable, and Shigeyuki agreed.†   (source)
  • The blood pressure in Joan's throat almost strangled her.†   (source)
  • From her blood pressure, tissue firmness, and lymph circulation, I pretty much know what's what with her—and for good reason.†   (source)
  • Sometimes potatoes will drive your blood pressure up," he said.†   (source)
  • I was so fearful of failing the physical that my blood pressure went up.†   (source)
  • Come back here again three days from now and we'll recheck your blood pressure.†   (source)
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