Normal Blood Pressure

Is Normal Blood Pressure Your Blood Pressure?

You need to understand a few things about blood pressure and this artilce will be lesson number one in your educational journey.  

We will explain some basic principles in a simple, easy and engaging fashion. 

There are many factors that effect your blood pressure and your good health depends upon you understanding them.

Our story starts off with some confusion, because there are no hard and fast figures which represent a normal blood pressure. 

The truth is that often doctors and other experts cannot even decide between them what an ideal blood pressure range is for an adult.

One constant is that it is usually agreed that somewhere between 110/70 and 125/80 is considered to be an average blood pressure for the adult person, though someone with naturally low blood pressure may be closer to a range of 100/60

If you had a blood pressure reading of 140/90 it would be considered to be high, but as you grow older that very same reading would become more normal for most people.

As a healthly person your blood doesn’t circulate in an even stream around your body.  It travels in a constant series of spurts.

Therefore the pressure peaks in the blood vessels just after a heart beat and then ebbs until the next one. This is a continuous process.

When your blood pressure is measured the two number  (120/80) represent the pressures when the forces are at their peak and at their lowest ebb. The stronger the arteries are, the more they resist the force of the blood and the lower the blood pressure.

As you get older, and the elasticity of your arteries weakens, the figures tend to rise. However the lower figure should still be under 90 until until your reach about sixty years of age. .

Many studies looking at blood pressure in both black and white people have found there is a higher prevalence of hypertension (High blood pressure) in black people than there is in white. This has led to further research in determining whether this is racially determined or just based on socioeconomic and dietary factors.

Many folks who suffer high blood pressure find they just can’t pinpoint a cause for their problem. They may be fit, have a very healthy lifestyle yet their blood pressure remains consistently high for no apparent reason.  

This is called Primary or essential high blood pressure. However if the raised blood pressure is due to an underlying medical problem, it is known as Secondary High Blood Pressure.

Nearly one in four people in the Western world have high blood pressure. Many people don’t appreciate it is a dangerous condition that can lead to a heart attack kidney failure or stroke if it is left untreated.

Yet there are thousands of people unaware they have high blood pressure who are walking around with a lethal time bomb ticking away inside them.

Now that you've taken an important step to understanding the importance of your blood pressure level, please spend some time with the other information you will find on this web site. 

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