Blood pressure

by | Dec 10, 2003 | 8 comments

Dad’s got a machine for testing blood pressure now, since the doctor recommended he keep an eye on it. 🙁 He tested my blood pressure. It’s 118 over 66, and my resting heart rate is 65 bpm, which is apparently pretty good. I have to look it up later to see what it all means. In the mean time, I guess I can continue eating fatty foods and drinking whiskey. :bounce:

8 Comments

  1. maggie
    maggie on December 10, 2003 at 12:37 am

    your resting heart rate is 65?! holy jumping… I think average is 72 o.O
    (i’m an animal biologist, so I don’t know much human..but my friends in biomed were checking people’s heart rate the other day and said 72 is supposed to be average)

    I used to know what the blood pressure numbers meant for humans..but that was grade 11 biology..that was eons ago o.O

    .maggie

  2. superkev
    superkev on December 10, 2003 at 8:47 am

    you’re the closest thing i know to a doctor, so if you find out anything i should know, tell me! 😛

  3. KPR
    KPR on December 10, 2003 at 2:23 pm

    that’s a crazy BP! crazy good. the pulse is very good, too, like that of an athlete. I think mines about 78bpm, not great, but still not fast enough to dance to.

  4. maggie
    maggie on December 10, 2003 at 9:16 pm

    a cat’s healthy heart rate is 140, a medium-large dog about 120. If your dad’s ever gets that high, be concerned .. as I imagine he’s a fair big bigger then either a cat or a dog.

    the appropriate rate for a human is 60-80. A horse is 25-40. (horses are generally bigger then a human..)

    just to put stuff in perspective or something 😉

  5. superkev
    superkev on December 11, 2003 at 12:11 am

    😀 thanks. BRING ON THE FRIED CHICKEN! 😛

  6. hesi
    hesi on December 14, 2003 at 1:19 am

    i remember when i was a kid i was fascinated when someone told me that every animal has approximately the same number of heart beats during their life. is that true maggie?

  7. maggie
    maggie on December 14, 2003 at 12:25 pm

    i’m not sure what you mean…? Like, total number of heart beats?
    well, if a cat is at 140 bpm and lives 15 years..that’s 1103760000 beats in its lifetime, about. And if a human has 75 bpm and lives to 90 years that about 3547800000 beats in its lifetime…not quite the same 🙂
    i know that by a time a human is 40 there heart will have not been beating for a cumalative of like a year or something (your heart takes little breaks all the time)

  8. superkev
    superkev on December 14, 2003 at 11:09 pm

    oh crap. now i’m counting. 😐