According to statistics, more than 90% of all people have ever had problems with blood pressure. The pressure rises and falls, depending on many factors, among which the most common are inferior sleep, the lack of a single rhythm of life, a sharp change in weather in the region, flights in areas with other climatic conditions. The older a person becomes, the higher the risk of hypertension. It is extremely difficult to treat hypertension, therefore it is more expedient and easier to prevent it and to monitor the increase in blood pressure in its early stages. So, for example, you should not wait until the tonometer readings record the pressure 130 to 110, if it is possible to take the necessary measures when the device shows a pressure of 130 to 90.
If a person has had low blood pressure all his life, he should not trust the generally accepted figures given in the article. For some, indicators of 110 by 70 are working pressure, but for someone this is an occasion to turn to a cardiologist. If, on the contrary, you’ve had high blood pressure all your life, you don’t need to inflate panic, if the tonometer shows a pressure of 130 per 100, listen to your body and evaluate how you will bear such a load taking into account your personal “working” indicators. However, do not forget that, according to statistics, the initial stage of hypertension is diagnosed in people with a pressure of 130 to 90.
Blood pressure has two quantitative indicators: systolic and diastolic pressure. It is these two indicators that you see when measuring pressure with a tonometer. Systolic pressure is blood pressure during contraction of the heart muscle, and diastolic pressure is an indicator of pressure with maximum relaxation of the heart muscle in the interval between heart beats. Too small a difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure indicates weak work of the heart muscles and can signal the initial stage of heart disease. That is why a pressure of 130 to 90 is not as dangerous as 110 to 90 or 100 to 80.
Many hypertensive patients note that in the doctor’s office devices show a higher pressure than at home. This is not an anomaly, this difference is due to the patient's excitement. Everyone knows that with excitement, the pulse becomes more frequent, and with it the pressure rises slightly. In hypertensive patients, this symptom is more pronounced. Another “anomaly” observed by hypertensive patients is the difference in tonometer values when measuring pressure on the left and right hands. This is due to the peculiarities of the location and structure of the arteries, and the more significant this difference, the greater the likelihood of further aggravation of the disease. When measuring pressure on the left hand, the indicators are usually higher, since the heart is on the left side. It is this indicator that more accurately reflects the real state of the patient.
If your pressure is 130 to 90 and you don’t know whether this is considered the beginning of hypertension or simply a consequence of a temporary stressful state of the body, determine whether you are observing other symptoms of hypertension. Already at the initial stage of the disease, headaches appear, a person is tormented by sleep disturbances, it is constantly hot, they may be bothered by aching pains in the region of the heart, there is increased anxiety and increased fatigue, sweating and tinnitus. If the pressure is caused by a one-time stressful state, then the person is usually overworked and his level of anxiety is slightly reduced, the temperature balance of the body does not change, tinnitus and sweating are not observed. Pain in the heart area under stress often occurs, but this is not pain in the heart muscles, as in hypertension, but a manifestation of intercostal neuralgia. If you do not have symptoms of hypertension and the pressure “jumped” due to stress, you should not rejoice: according to statistics, chronic stress is one of the most common causes of hypertension.