What is indicated by a patient's blood pressure?
a. Emotional stress
b. How hard the heart is working to distribute blood
c. Presence of infection
d. Rate and rhythm of the heartbeat
b
FEEDBACK: a. Incorrect. Emotional stress can affect the blood pressure, but the blood pressure reading is not a measurement of stress.
b. Correct. The blood pressure indicates how hard the heart is working to distribute blood.
c. Incorrect. The presence of infection can affect the blood pressure, but the blood pressure reading is not a determination of the presence of infection.
d. Incorrect. The rate of the heart may affect the blood pressure, but the heartbeat is not indicated by the blood pressure.
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