# Average Blood Pressure Example - US Core Implementation Guide v8.0.1

* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**Artifacts Summary**](artifacts.md)
* **Average Blood Pressure Example**

## Example Observation: Average Blood Pressure Example

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| *Page standards status:*[Informative](http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/versions.html#std-process) |

Profile: [US Core Average Blood Pressure Profile](StructureDefinition-us-core-average-blood-pressure.md) version: 8.0.1

**status**: Final

**category**: Vital Signs

**code**: Avg Blood pressure systolic and diastolic

**subject**: [Amy Shaw](Patient-example.md)

**effective**: 2023-08-03 01:06:52+0000 --> 2023-08-06 13:07:01+0000

**performer**: [Amy Shaw](Patient-example.md)

**note**: 

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Average blood pressure is calculated from 12 measurements taken by the patient over 3 days.


> **component****code**: Average systolic blood pressure**value**: 109 mm[Hg] (Details: UCUM codemm[Hg] = 'mm[Hg]')

> **component****code**: Average diastolic blood pressure**value**: 72 mm[Hg] (Details: UCUM codemm[Hg] = 'mm[Hg]')

> **component****code**: Number of measurements**value**: 3 #



## Resource Content

```json
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  "resourceType" : "Observation",
  "id" : "average-blood-pressure",
  "meta" : {
    "profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-average-blood-pressure|8.0.1"]
  },
  "status" : "final",
  "category" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category",
      "code" : "vital-signs",
      "display" : "Vital Signs"
    }],
    "text" : "Vital Signs"
  }],
  "code" : {
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://loinc.org",
      "code" : "96607-7",
      "display" : "Blood pressure panel mean systolic and mean diastolic"
    }],
    "text" : "Avg Blood pressure systolic and diastolic"
  },
  "subject" : {
    "reference" : "Patient/example",
    "display" : "Amy Shaw"
  },
  "effectivePeriod" : {
    "start" : "2023-08-03T01:06:52.480Z",
    "end" : "2023-08-06T13:07:01.166Z"
  },
  "performer" : [{
    "reference" : "Patient/example",
    "display" : "Amy Shaw"
  }],
  "note" : [{
    "text" : "Average blood pressure is calculated from 12 measurements taken by the patient over 3 days."
  }],
  "component" : [{
    "code" : {
      "coding" : [{
        "system" : "http://loinc.org",
        "code" : "96608-5",
        "display" : "Systolic blood pressure mean"
      }],
      "text" : "Average systolic blood pressure"
    },
    "valueQuantity" : {
      "value" : 109,
      "unit" : "mm[Hg]",
      "system" : "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
      "code" : "mm[Hg]"
    }
  },
  {
    "code" : {
      "coding" : [{
        "system" : "http://loinc.org",
        "code" : "96609-3",
        "display" : "Diastolic blood pressure mean"
      }],
      "text" : "Average diastolic blood pressure"
    },
    "valueQuantity" : {
      "value" : 72,
      "unit" : "mm[Hg]",
      "system" : "http://unitsofmeasure.org",
      "code" : "mm[Hg]"
    }
  },
  {
    "code" : {
      "coding" : [{
        "system" : "http://snomed.info/sct",
        "code" : "246432004",
        "display" : "Number of occurrences (qualifier value)"
      }],
      "text" : "Number of measurements"
    },
    "valueQuantity" : {
      "value" : 3,
      "unit" : "#"
    }
  }]
}

```
