Breakdown of La pressione è alta, quindi la misuro regolarmente.
essere
to be
alto
tall / high
la
her/it (direct object)
quindi
therefore / so
Questions & Answers about La pressione è alta, quindi la misuro regolarmente.
Why doesn't the sentence say La mia pressione for "My blood pressure"?
In Italian, you usually drop possessive adjectives (like mia) when talking about body parts, clothing, or personal health if it is already obvious who you are talking about. Since the speaker is the one taking the measurement, it is clearly their own blood pressure.
What is the la doing in la misuro?
This lesson is about indirect speech. How would I say "The doctor told me to measure it regularly"?
To report a command in indirect speech, you use di plus the infinitive of the verb. "The doctor told me to measure it" becomes Il medico mi ha detto di misurarla. Notice that the object pronoun la attaches directly to the end of the infinitive misurare (which drops its final e to become misurarla).