High Blood Pressure Symptoms Causes Diet Treatment

Because it matters…Heart disease awareness

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE SYMPTOMS CAUSES DIET & TREATMENT

Dr.Armughan Riaz
M.B.B.S, Dip Card
Consultant Cardiologist

 

Blood Pressure Chart

 Here is a chart for high blood pressure, chart for low blood pressure, blood pressure measuring chart

 

 

Hypertension or blood pressure may be divided into three types in Blood Pressure Chart:



  • Mild Hypertension:The systollic blood pressure ranges between 140 and 160 and the diastolic blood pressure ranges between 90 and 100.

 

  • Moderate Hypertension:The systollic blood pressure ranges between 160 and 200 and the diastolic blood pressure ranges between 100 and 120.

 

  • Severe Hypertension:The systollic blood pressure is above 200 and the diastolic blood pressure is above 120.

Blood Pressure Chart

*Please note-Values discussed are all in mm of Hg

 



 Level of Severity Systolic Blood Pressure Diastolic Blood pressure
 Mild Hypertension 140-160 90-100
 Moderate   Hypertension 160-200 100-120
 Severe Hypertension Above 200 Above 200

Average Blood Pressure

For young people –120/80
mmHg
For old people –
140/90mmHg

 

Blood Pressure Classification Chart

Category

Systolic (mm Hg)

Diastolic (mm Hg)

Normal

Lower than 120

Lower than 80

Prehypertension

120 - 139

80 - 89


Hypertension
 

Stage 1

140-159

90-99

Stage 2

160 or higher

100 or higher

Adapted from The Seventh Report on the joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), NIH Publication No. 03-5233, May 2003

   

 

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