| Goal 4 | Check your blood pressure |
If you have high blood pressure, then it is not recommended that you use a standing desk. For that reason, you should get your blood pressure checked before trying one out, but it’s not the only reason you should get it checked. Your blood pressure can be an early indicator of many health problems.
Blood pressure is the force of blood against the arteries created by the heart as it pumps blood through the circulatory system. Like all muscles, the heart alternates between contracting and relaxing, and blood pressure varies between these two states. That’s why we measure it with two numbers: systolic blood pressure (the pressure when the heart contracts), and diastolic blood pressure (the pressure when the heart ...
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