When blood pressure is measured, why must the arm cuff be

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When blood pressure is measured, why must the jacket be held at the level of the heart?

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QUESTION:

When blood pressure is measured, why must the jacket be held at the level of the heart?

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Solution 6Q:

        We have to explain the reason behind, keeping the arm cuff at the level of the heart when the blood pressure is measured.

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The pressure at any point is equal to due to liquid of density  and column of height  above that point is given by the relation

 

        where, Pressure above the liquid column

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