When your heart beats, it moves oxygen-rich blood through the blood vessels or arteries, that are all through your body. Blood pressure is the pressure of the blood pressing against the insides of the arteries.
The pressure of blood in contact with the artery walls when your heart beats is known as systolic pressure. Diastolic pressure is the pressure between beats when your heart relaxes.
Blood pressure is presented as two numbers, the systolic and diastolic pressures. Both of these are equally important. Normally they are scripted one above or before the other, for instance, 120/80 mmHg. The top number or first number is the systolic and the bottom number or second number, is the diastolic. If your blood pressure is 120/80, the way you express it is "120 over 80."
Your blood pressure varies all the way through the day. It is smallest number when you are asleep, and it climbs when you wake up. It also can go up when you are agitated, anxious, or physical activity. So it changes throughout the day.
A systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg plus, or a diastolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg plus, is regarded as high blood pressure, or hypertension. Hypertension is the medical name for high blood pressure.
With diabetes or chronic kidney disease, a systolic blood pressure of 130 mmHg plus, or a diastolic blood pressure of 80 mmHg or more is believed to be high blood pressure
High blood pressure presently impacts more than 65 million Americans. That is 1 out of every 3 adults.
High blood pressure is sometimes known as the silent killer because it ordinarily has no symptoms. Many individuals may not know they have high blood pressure till they have problems with their heart, brain or kidneys. When high blood pressure is not analyzed and cared for, it can head to other serious conditions, like kidney failure, heart attack and stroke.
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