Health monitoring
The routine monitoring of blood pressure levels is an important part of assessing an individual's health. Blood pressure provides information about the amount of blood in circulation and about heart function and thus is an important indicator of disease.
human disease
human disease, an impairment of the healthy state of the human body that interrupts or modifies its vital functions. Disease may be trivial if the impairment is minimal. It may also be associated with illness or be latent, becoming apparent at some later time. The terms health, physical fitness, illness, and disease are fundamental to understanding differences between states of health and disease.. Health could be defined theoretically in terms of certain measured values; for...
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