Three Things That Can Distort Your Blood Pressure Results
by Jeff Somers from Lifehacker on (#6C7V6)

Your blood pressure is a measurement of the pressure your circulating blood is putting on the walls of your arteries, and is expressed as two numbers: Your systolic pressure (the top number, so the 120" in 120/70) is the force exerted on your arteries when your heart beats, and the diastolic pressure (the bottom...