A Descriptive Definition of High Blood Pressure
What is High Blood Pressure?
Above average bloodpressure is rise in pressure imposed by moving blood on the artery walls as a normal reaction to anxiety and physical movement. If you are undergoing through hypertension constantly then it will get your heart and arteries feeble. Heart attacks, arterial diseases and strokes are the results of this hypertension.
Blood Pressure Measurement
Your blood pressure is recorded in two values, the systolic, where blood put pressure when it comes into artery from the heart and the second is diastolic, where blood exert prssure when the heart ventricles take rest between beats. Medical practitioners check it in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg).
High Blood Pressure might be explained in a grown-up as a blood pressure above or same as 140 mm Hg systolic pressure, or higher or equal to 90 mm Hg diastolic pressure. Reading of blood pressure more than 140/90 is not normal & shows hypertension.
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