Systolic Normal Blood Pressure

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Systolic normal blood pressure. Isolated systolic hypertension happens when your diastolic blood pressure is less than 80 millimeters of mercury mm hg and your systolic blood pressure is 130 mm hg or higher. Normal resting blood pressure in an adult is approximately 120 millimetres of mercury 16 kpa systolic and 80 millimetres of mercury 11 kpa diastolic abbreviated 120 80 mmhg. Blood pressure is one of the vital signs along with respiratory rate heart rate oxygen saturation and body temperature. If the systolic blood pressure is lower than normal systolic hypotension is said to be present.

Isolated systolic hypertension is the most common form of high blood pressure in people older than age 65. Blood pressure is recorded as systolic over diastolic such as 120 70 the upper normal value for most adults. Globally the average blood pressure. Younger people can have this type of high blood pressure too.

Diastolic pressure the pressure when your heart rests between beats. The peak blood pressure during a heart contraction is called systolic. The pressure exerted on the blood vessels between heartbeats is called diastolic. This is called isolated systolic hypertension and you treat it the same way you.

For a normal reading your blood pressure needs to show a top number systolic pressure that s between 90 and less than 120 and a bottom number diastolic pressure that s between 60 and less. For example if your blood pressure is 140 over 90 or 140 90mmhg it means you have a systolic pressure of. 90 over 60 90 60 or less. What blood pressure readings mean.

High systolic blood pressure is a sign of high blood pressure even if your diastolic blood pressure is normal. More than 90 over 60 90 60 and less than 120 over 80 120 80. If your blood pressure is elevated systolic blood pressure between 120 and 129 or diastolic blood pressure of less than 80 your doctor will probably want to check it every 3 6 months. Low systolic blood pressure.

Blood pressure is measured in millimetres of mercury mmhg and is given as 2 figures. As you can see from the blood pressure chart only one of the numbers has to be higher or lower than it should be to count as either high blood pressure or low blood pressure.