A: Have you been having any problems lately? B: No, but the nurse at school says that I should have my blood pressure checked. A: Do you have a history of high blood pressure? B: No, I have never been told that I have high blood pressure. A: High blood pressure is called the silent killer because it hardly ever has symptoms. B: How do you check for high blood pressure? A: We are going to use this cuff here, and it will give me a reading. B: What do the numbers mean? A: They tell me how much your heart is working at rest and when pumping blood. B: Good. That will help me know how I am doing.
