Blood Pressure Lab Write-up
Produce a lab report for the body position activity of the Blood Pressure lab. You do not
need to address the other parts of the experiment. I am providing you an outline, but
your report should be in nonnumeric, paragraph form.
The data you need for the report is found in an Excel file posted on Canvas. The data
includes sitting (resting) and recumbent data of heart rate and blood pressure. The
subjects also reported their sex and age (decade, not specific year).
1. Write an Introduction Section (3 or 4 paragraphs). A brief overview of blood pressure
should be included in this section. Don’t forget to include a citation when you provide
information which is not common knowledge. For example, your text (Silverthorn,
2019), lab manual (Caldwell, Didomenico, Shearer, & Botten, 2019), or another
reasonable source. Make sure to include brief explanations of the physiology underlying
the measurement of blood pressure and how to interpret the blood pressure reading. State
the hypotheses or predictions.
2. Methods. Write 2-3 paragraphs which give an overview of how you did your experiment.
Cite our lab manual (Caldwell, Didomenico, Shearer, & Botten, 2019), and then
concisely summarize how the data was collected.
Write a paragraph describing your test subjects. How are they similar and how are they
different?
Write a paragraph which gives a general overview of how you used the methods and
baseline data to study the effects of changes in body position on blood pressure and heart
rate. What is the independent variable of this experiment? The dependent variable?
