High Blood Pressure Explained 

High Blood Pressure Explained

What is High Blood Pressure?

Extreme blood pressure may be rise in pressure exerted by circulating blood on the walls of artery as a normal response to anxiety and physical work. But, if this pressure continues to be constantly high (high blood pressure as it is known), it can put burden your heart and arteries. Strokes, heart attacks and arterial diseases are the outcomes of this hypertension.

Measuring Your Blood Pressure

Medical practitioners record blood pressure in two values, the systolic (the blood pressure when it passes the artery from the heart) and the diastolic (the pressure when the heart ventricles relax between beats). Millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) is the checking unit of blood pressure.

Above the usual Blood Pressure might be defined in an adult as the bloodpressure more than or equal to 140 mm Hg systolic pressure, or above or equal to 90 mm Hg diastolic pressure. But, a blood pressure reading greater than 140/90 shows hypertension and is treated unnatural at any age.