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What does blood pressure tell you?
Systolic blood pressure, the top number, measures the force your heart exerts on the walls of your arteries each time it beats. Diastolic blood pressure, the bottom number, measures the force your heart exerts on the walls of your arteries in between beats.
What are good ranges for blood pressure?
Normal: Blood pressure below 120/80 mm Hg is considered to be normal. Elevated: When blood pressure readings consistently range from 120 to 129 systolic and less than 80 mm Hg diastolic, it is known as elevated blood pressure.
How much difference should there be between systolic and diastolic?
The top number (systolic) minus the bottom number (diastolic) gives you your pulse pressure. For example, if your resting blood pressure is 120/80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), your pulse pressure is 40 — which is considered a normal and healthy pulse pressure.
What time of day is your blood pressure highest?
Usually, blood pressure starts to rise a few hours before you wake up. It continues to rise during the day, peaking in midday. Blood pressure normally drops in the late afternoon and evening. Blood pressure is normally lower at night while you’re sleeping.
How close is too close for blood pressure?
Generally, a pulse pressure greater than 40 mm Hg is abnormal.
What is considered a good blood pressure?
Generally, anything under 120/80 is considered a good blood pressure. Average numbers between 120/80 and 139/89 are considered ” prehypertension .”. If the average of your numbers is more than 140/90, you have high blood pressure. One reading of more than 140/90 doesn’t necessarily mean that you have high blood pressure.
What is dangerous blood pressure level?
Blood pressure can go as high as 220/120. These levels are dangerously high, and they can result in stroke, internal hemorrhage, cerebral edema or death.
What mean arterial pressure is too low?
When the mean arterial pressure goes too low it means there is less blood getting to the vital organs and could cause you to go into shock. Without enough blood, organs can fail. A MAP can be low even if the systolic (top number) blood pressure is 80 to 100 mmHg.
What is the ideal blood pressure for a 60 year old male?
What is the normal blood pressure for a 60 year old male. A blood pressure of 120/80 mm of mercury is considered normal for young adults, but the normal blood pressure for a 60 year-old man may be 140/90 and does require lifestyle changes without any active treatment for blood pressure in clinical medicine.