Learn
Plain-language notes on the numbers you're tracking. Each one is sourced, and none of it is medical advice -- attensio helps you keep a record worth bringing to the person who gives it.
- Blood pressure basics
- What systolic, diastolic, and pulse mean, and why patterns beat any single reading.
- AHA blood pressure categories
- The population-level zones, and why your personal target range comes first.
- Pulse pressure
- The gap between your two numbers, and what a persistent pattern can mean.
- BMI and blood pressure
- One coarse signal among many -- shown for context, never as a goal or verdict.
- How to measure blood pressure at home
- The technique that separates a true pattern from a measurement artifact.
- White coat and masked hypertension
- Why clinic and home readings differ, and why home tracking helps your doctor.
- Blood pressure and your daily rhythm
- Why it dips overnight and surges near waking, and what AM vs PM can reveal.
- Factor tags: the context behind a reading
- How activity, diet, sleep, stress, and measurement conditions move a reading.