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Understanding
High Blood Pressure

• Each time your heart beats it sends blood to the rest of your body through your veins and arteries.

• The force in which the blood goes through the arteries is called SYSTOLIC pressure.

• The pressure between the heart beats is called DIASTOLIC pressure.

• When the SYSTOLIC pressure or the DIASTOLIC pressure is consitently reaching 140/90 or more, it is diagnosed as High Blood Pressure also known as hypertension.

The actual pressure of the blood is measured by a:
BLOOD PRESSURE MACHINE.

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Blood Pressure Guidelines

*NORMAL
120 / 80

ELEVATED
139 / 89

HIGH
140 / 90

180 / 120
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