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Blood Pressure

Blood pressure is the force exerted by circulating blood against arterial walls, expressed as systolic and diastolic values and determined by cardiac output, vascular resistance, and blood volume. It is a fundamental hemodynamic parameter and a principal indicator of cardiovascular health, with sustained elevation (…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 58× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 3070-1937 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Blood pressure is the force exerted by circulating blood against arterial walls, expressed as systolic and diastolic values and determined by cardiac output, vascular resistance, and blood volume. It is a fundamental hemodynamic parameter and a principal indicator of cardiovascular health, with sustained elevation (hypertension) constituting a major risk factor for stroke, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and kidney disease. In clinical and vascular research, blood pressure is studied through standardized measurement, the epidemiology and control of hypertension, its physiological responses to activity and stress, and its associations with metabolic and genetic factors. The peer-reviewed work in this area reflects these themes, including recommended standards for assessing blood pressure in human research, the relationship between blood pressure load on ambulatory monitoring and body mass index in children, factors associated with uncontrolled hypertension, the prevalence of hypertension among adolescents, rate-pressure-product responses during isometric resistance exercise, and gene-polymorphism associations with blood pressure and diabetes susceptibility. Studies of metabolic syndrome and heart failure situate blood pressure within broader cardiovascular risk. Methods span standardized and ambulatory measurement, epidemiological survey, exercise physiology, and genetic association. This body of research treats blood pressure as a precisely measurable, modifiable hemodynamic variable central to the assessment, prevention, and management of cardiovascular and renal disease.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Heart Failure in Family Medicine

Franjić SinišaCorresponding author
Exact topic International Journal of Global Health Cited by 3 doi:10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-20-3411

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 58 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Blood Transfusion (ISSN 3070-1937).

Journal editorial board
PROF OSARO ERHABOR · United Kingdom Nobu Akiyama · Japan Young-Kyun Lee · South Korea

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