How Different Genres Of Music Affect.Blood Pressure.. Labrae

According to the American Psychological Association (2016), the human cardiovascular system involves the heart, arteries, and veins that react in conjunction to various forms of stress (para. 9). Chafin and her associates recognized that much research has been conducted on how stress can have a negative impact on the human body and how prolonged or excessive stress can be associated with the onset of high blood pressure and heart related diseases. The basic foundation of this scientific experiment was to test whether music had any influence in reducing stressed related effects on the cardiovascular system. However, these researchers wanted to expand their investigation one step further by studying the effect of music on an individual’s stress levels once the stressor was removed and no longer existed. One particular study that the researchers referenced was the 2002 study of Glynn, Christenfeld and Gerin, that indicated an association between an individual’s emotional reaction and their ability to rally back to normalcy. They discovered that if the individual’s focus was no longer on the stressor, they rebounded quicker than those who were continuously connected emotionally to the stressful event. Such continual reliving of the event may have both a long-term physical and emotional toll on the individual.

(Marieb and Hoehn, 2010, p 703) defined Blood Pressure (BP) as ‘the force per unit area exerted on a vessel wall by the contained blood, and is expressed in millimetres of mercury (mm Hg)’. BP is still one of the essential and widely used assessment tools in healthcare settings. Nurses generally record the arterial BP which is the forced exerted blood that flows through the arteries, to establish a baseline and to determine any risk factors. BP

1.  Blood pressure is the force of circulating blood against the walls of the arteries. The pressure of blood in the arteries correlates directly to the amount of blood pumped by the heart and the amount of resistance in the

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As the blood is forced throughout our body, there is a pressure that is exerted on the walls of our arteries, this is known as blood pressure. We see blood pressure represented as two numbers, the systolic (top) and the diastolic (bottom) numbers. The systolic blood pressure is the heart contracting and the diastolic is the heart relaxing. A normal, healthy, blood pressure would be written as 120/80 mmHg (millimeters of mercury) or verbally expressed by most individuals as 120 over 80. Our blood pressure can vary depending on many things. When the diastolic or systolic pressure is high, or significantly and consistently above 120/80 mmHg, this is what we call hypertension. There are different stages or degrees of hypertension. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (2010) describes the stages as the following:

Blood pressure (BP) as defined by Marieb and Hoehan (as cited in Peate & Wild, 2012) is the pressure that the blood puts on the blood vessel walls as the blood travels around the body controlled by the heart. The strength of the blood pushing on the blood vessel wall is the BP reading. According

Blood pressure is a measure of the force of blood that is against the arterial walls.

The heart pumps blood into the arteries and the force of the blood pushing against blood vessel walls is called blood pressure. Arteries carry the blood throughout the body. High blood pressure is also know as hypertension and is very dangerous in many different ways. One way is that it makes the heart have to work harder in order to pump the blood to the body. Secondly it contributes to hardening of the arteries and lastly, it also contributes to heart failure. A healthy heart is essential to life and having high blood pressure it not healthy for the heart. It has been proven that there are many different causes that have been linked to high blood pressure.

It is the measurement of the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls. A blood pressure cuff and a stethoscope is what are used to measure this. While taking you blood pressure two numbers are recorded; Systolic pressure and Diastolic pressure. Systolic pressure is the higher number that refers to the pressure inside the artery when the heart contracts and pumps blood through the body. Diastolic pressure is the lower number and refers to the pressure inside the artery when the heart is at rest and is filling with blood. Having high blood pressure can increase the risk of coronary heart disease (i.e. heart attack, stroke).

The purpose of this experiment was to see how different genres of music affect blood pressure (BP). The hypothesis was that songs with higher beats per minute (BPM) would cause an increase in BP. The items that were used in this experiment were an automatic BP monitor, a mp3 player, five different types of music, and a set of headphones. The subject would stand for a minute, have the resting BP measured, then listen to the selected song for two minutes, and again have the BP measured. From all of the genres Meditation the music that lowered BP the most, while Rock raised it significantly.

This article by Julia Michelle about how blood pressure cuffs had very detailed information about what a blood pressure cuff does. The article begins by explaining that a blood pressure cuff is a device used to measure the force of blood flow through the veins. This information is extremely significant to the experiment because a blood pressure cuff will be used to take measurements. The article then explains that the average healthy person should have a blood pressure between 11070 to 12080. The number on the top represents the systolic force, or the force of the blood when the heart

This background research is about how music can affect the heart rate. What we would do is we would is, one person at at time will sit in a chair and we will put a electrocardiogram on their chest. Then we would play different types of music. After that we would see which music affected the heart rate and which one did not.

The purpose of this experiment is to test how how different water temperatures affect blood pressure. The first step of the experiment’s procedure was to create a baseline. We did this by taking the normal blood pressure of the subject. We then submerged the subject’s feet in three different water temperatures; cold. room temperature, and warm.

With the information found with what a patient’s blood pressure is, it helps health care providers understand the state of the patient’s health. A patient’s blood pressure measures the amount of pressure exerted on arterial walls in the patient’s heart. Blood pressure is measured in two numbers: systolic and diastolic. Systolic, the number listed first in blood pressure readings, reports the amount of force exerted by the blood into the arteries during ventricular contraction.

The purpose of the experiment is to see how different variables affect pulse rate and blood pressure.