If a person has an arterial blood pressure measurement of 16 kPa (120 mmHg), this equates to which of the following pressures in newtons per square centimetre?
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A: The “newton per square metre” is renamed the pascal. 1 N/m2 = 1 Pa. 16,000 N/m2 = 16,000 Pa = 16 kPa.
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