High blood pressure is prevalent in all countries and affects millions of people. The increase in the number of people afflicted can be put down to our modern lifestyles which have bad diets and leave little time for working out. At first the symptoms may not arise, most people are not even aware of what is a good blood pressure reading and what is bad.
The heart is the most essential organ in our bodies. It is basically a pump that feeds a continuous supply of blood to the body. It will transport blood that is low in oxygen to the lungs and then move oxygen rich blood to every cell and muscle in the body.
Blood pressure has two measurements. There is systolic pressure which is given when the heart is beating and pumping blood, and diastolic pressure which shows the value when the heart is in-between beats at rest.
The pressure values are calculated though the force exerted by the movement of blood on to the artery walls. It is measured in millimetres of mercury, or mmHg. If your local doctor has said that your blood pressure is “125 over 80″ then it is the first number which is the systolic value, the second is the diastolic.
High blood pressure is also called hypertension. A health specialist will categorize any continual reading higher than–0/90 as high blood pressure. At first the only symptom may be the actual reading, but if not controlled it can lead to serious cardio-vascular problems.
Hypotension is another term for low blood pressure. It is not as serious a problem as high pressure, but if the values are consistently low over a period of time then there may be an underlying concern. 90/66 mmHg is the benchmark for low blood pressure.
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 5:14 am and is filed under Health.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
High blood pressure is prevalent in all countries and affects millions of people. The increase in the number of people afflicted can be put down to our modern lifestyles which have bad diets and leave little time for working out. At first the symptoms may not arise, most people are not even aware of what is a good blood pressure reading and what is bad.
The heart is the most essential organ in our bodies. It is basically a pump that feeds a continuous supply of blood to the body. It will transport blood that is low in oxygen to the lungs and then move oxygen rich blood to every cell and muscle in the body.
Blood pressure has two measurements. There is systolic pressure which is given when the heart is beating and pumping blood, and diastolic pressure which shows the value when the heart is in-between beats at rest.
The pressure values are calculated though the force exerted by the movement of blood on to the artery walls. It is measured in millimetres of mercury, or mmHg. If your local doctor has said that your blood pressure is “125 over 80″ then it is the first number which is the systolic value, the second is the diastolic.
High blood pressure is also called hypertension. A health specialist will categorize any continual reading higher than–0/90 as high blood pressure. At first the only symptom may be the actual reading, but if not controlled it can lead to serious cardio-vascular problems.
Hypotension is another term for low blood pressure. It is not as serious a problem as high pressure, but if the values are consistently low over a period of time then there may be an underlying concern. 90/66 mmHg is the benchmark for low blood pressure.
High blood pressure is prevalent in all countries and affects millions of people. The increase in the number of people afflicted can be put down to our modern lifestyles which have bad diets and leave little time for working out. At first the symptoms may not arise, most people are not even aware of what is a good blood pressure reading and what is bad.
The heart is the most essential organ in our bodies. It is basically a pump that feeds a continuous supply of blood to the body. It will transport blood that is low in oxygen to the lungs and then move oxygen rich blood to every cell and muscle in the body.
Blood pressure has two measurements. There is systolic pressure which is given when the heart is beating and pumping blood, and diastolic pressure which shows the value when the heart is in-between beats at rest.
The pressure values are calculated though the force exerted by the movement of blood on to the artery walls. It is measured in millimetres of mercury, or mmHg. If your local doctor has said that your blood pressure is “125 over 80″ then it is the first number which is the systolic value, the second is the diastolic.
High blood pressure is also called hypertension. A health specialist will categorize any continual reading higher than–0/90 as high blood pressure. At first the only symptom may be the actual reading, but if not controlled it can lead to serious cardio-vascular problems.
Hypotension is another term for low blood pressure. It is not as serious a problem as high pressure, but if the values are consistently low over a period of time then there may be an underlying concern. 90/66 mmHg is the benchmark for low blood pressure.