What is High Blood Pressure?

Above normal blood pressure is rise in pressure exerted by circulating blood on the present artery walls as a common response to strain & physical work. The continuous high blood pressure can exert more strain on your heart. High blood pressure causes arterial disease, heart attacks and strokes.

Blood Pressure Reading

Doctors measure blood pressure as two values, the systolic (the blood pressure when it enters the artery from the heart) and the diastolic (the pressure when the heart ventricles repose betwixt beats). It is checked in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg).

Above average Blood Pressure will be defined in a grown-up as a blood pressure greater than or equal to 140 mm Hg systolic pressure, or greater than or equal to 90 mm Hg diastolic pressure. Reading of blood pressure greater than 140/90 is unnatural & determines hypertension.