You may use this blood pressure reading to determine if your blood pressure is at a healthy level or if you need to make any changes to your measurements.
Systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements provide a total blood pressure result.
Systolic blood pressure, the highest reading, gauges the force the heart applies to the artery walls with each beat.
The bottom reading, or diastolic blood pressure, gauges the pressure the heart exerts on the artery walls between beats.
The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology classify blood pressure into four broad categories. Normal blood pressure is consider to be ideal. Depending on the precise values, high, stage 1 or stage 2 blood pressure might be consider.
Your health care practitioner often takes the average of two or more blood pressure measurements from three or more office visits in order to get an appropriate blood pressure reading. What sort of treatment you could need is determine by an exact measurement.
Here are the four categories of blood pressure and what they signify for you.
Your right blood pressure category is the higher group if your systolic and diastolic readings fall into two separate categories. You could have stage 1 hypertension, for instance, if your blood pressure measurement is 125/85 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg).
A hypertensive emergency or crisis is define as a blood pressure reading of more than 180/120 mm Hg. If you or someone you know has these blood pressure readings, get immediate medical treatment.
Your treatment objective is normally less than 130/80 mm Hg if you are an adult with a 10% chance of developing cardiovascular disease in the next 10 years, or if you have chronic renal disease, diabetes, or coronary artery disease. Your treatment objective is typically less than 130/80 mm Hg if you are a healthy adult 65 years of age or older.
Maintaining or implementing a healthy lifestyle may help you avoid or postpone the emergence of high blood pressure or other health issues if your blood pressure is normal. If you have high blood pressure, adopting a healthy lifestyle may help you manage it and lower your chance of developing life-threatening consequences, frequently in conjunction with medication.