Blood Pressure Machines

:Ace: | 19:16 Tue 08th Nov 2005 | How it Works

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What does it mean when after you have had your blood pressure reading, the top number is normal and the bottom number is high?

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Buenchico

The condition you describe is known as isolated diastolic hypertension. It's not one of the types of high blood pressure which normally worries doctors. There's a very technical report about it here:
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/21 /3301

The important bit from that report says this: "Isolated diastolic hypertension, as assessed by home BP measurements, carried a low risk of cardiovascular mortality, similar to that found in subjects with normotension" . This, if I interprete it correctly, means that you're no more likely to drop dead than someone who has perfectly normal readings. So stop worrying!

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