High Blood Pressure 

High Blood Pressure

What is High Blood Pressure?

High blood pressure might be rise during pressure exerted by circulating blood on the artery walls as a natural response to stress & bodily activity. However, if this pressure continues to be persistently high (high blood pressure as it is known), it can overwork your heart and arteries. It causes heart attacks and strokes.

How to Evaluate Blood Pressure?

Your blood pressure is recorded in two values, the systolic, where blood put pressure when it enters into artery from the heart and the second is diastolic, where blood exert prssure when the heart ventricles take rest between beats. Millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) is the checking unit of blood pressure.

High Blood Pressure could be defined in a grown-up as the bloodpressure higher or equal to 140 mm Hg systolic pressure, or greater than or equable to 90 mm Hg diastolic pressure. But, a blood pressure reading greater than 140/90 determines hypertension and is considered abnormal in any stage.