Blood pressure

the great majority of people who have serious conditions from high blood pressure suffer debilitating illness

The nurse spent all day taking blood pressures at the hospital.

She threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor.” “Never you mind my blood pressure. You let it alone, and it'll leave you alone. UPJOHN!”