If you are in your 50s like me, isolated systolic hypertension is the most common form of high blood pressure. Observing the patients at the medical center, I've seen many reasons why this happens....
Category: BP Categories
Hypertensive crisis is the most serious of the five BP categories. If your BP ever reaches hypertensive crisis, you're going to do one of two things, call a doctor or 911. It depends on your symptoms...
High Blood Pressure Stage 2 – The MORE SERIOUS High BP Range
The other day at work someone told me their blood pressure was in the high blood pressure range. I asked them which one, stage 1 or stage 2? Like most, he didn't know there were two stages. Since...
I've been talking to many of the patients where I work and many don't know there are two different high BP ranges. The BP numbers recently changed in 2017 and there are new numbers differentiating...
Something recently released a few years ago altered many things about blood pressure. One of the changes included what a Normal Blood Pressure reading is. Surprisingly it's not 120 over 80 like...