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Force distributed over an area
Pressure is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. Gauge pressure is the pressure relative to the ambient pressure. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PressureA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: 2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertensionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The WaveThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure<SUBTITLE>The JNC 7 Report</SUBTITLE>Cited 14,753 times
- Go sideways: Hydraulic headA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Pressure measurementA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A force applied to a surface, calculated by amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area; force per unit area.
Noun An amount of pressure.
Noun A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
Noun Distress.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure<SUBTITLE>The JNC 7 Report</SUBTITLE>
Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies
The Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults
Superconductivity at 93 K in a new mixed-phase Y-Ba-Cu-O compound system at ambient pressure
Constant pressure molecular dynamics algorithms
A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control
🆕 Influential since 2022
2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension
Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate under high pressure
Wearable Pressure Sensors for Pulse Wave Monitoring
Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit
Hypertension in Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Blood Pressure Goals, and Pharmacotherapy: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
📚 Books worth reading
The WaveTodd Strasser · 1981
WringerJerry Spinelli · 1997
A bad case of stripesDavid Shannon, David Shannon · 1998
Girls Out LateJacqueline Wilson · 1999
Social pressures in informal groupsLeon Festinger, Stanley Schachter · 1950
Facts about the PresidentsJoseph Nathan Kane · 1959
The Interest Group SocietyJeffrey M. Berry, Clyde Wilcox · 1984
Fear Street - The DareRobert Lawrence Stine · 1992
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