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Pulse Pressure as Systolic Minus Diastolic Blood Pressure

Defines the borrowed trait. The African-ancestry data the paper uses for fine-mapping is pulse-pressure data, and rs704191-T raises pulse pressure by 0.16 SD; a student who cannot define pulse pressure cannot evaluate either step.

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What does a person's pulse pressure describe physiologically?

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Determinants of Blood Pressure in Cardiovascular Physiology

Blood pressure is determined by cardiac output (heart rate multiplied by stroke volume, itself governed by preload, contractility, and afterload) multiplied by total peripheral resistance, with resis…