Why isn’t blood pressure measured in pounds per square inch like every other pressure measurement?

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Why isn’t blood pressure measured in pounds per square inch like every other pressure measurement?

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It’s expressed in millimetres of mercury (mmHg) because the first popular device for measuring blood pressure, the mercury sphygmomanometer, measured the pressure by moving mercury.

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