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Your Blood Pressure Low Enough?

Blood Pressure is the main vital sign and at the same time it indicate the presence of your number of cardiovascular disease. ‘Vital Sign’ mean the condition that can be addressed by measuring different signals in your body.

Usually, the blood pressure can be classified as below:-

Classification	Systolic (mm Hg)	Diastolic (mm Hg)
Hypertensive	=> 135	=> 85
Pre-hypertensive	120 ~ 139	80 ~ 89
Normal	< 120	< 80

If your blood pressure is always at or greater than 140/90 mm Hg, then you are considered to have high blood pressure or hypertensive.

You must take note that hypertensive is a risk for your health as the blood vessel walls become irritated by increased pressure. Then your blood vessel walls will become more damaged, and the plaque tends to form, it directly result the increased atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. You can see that the most of the cases, the high blood pressure are among diabetic patients, so that the measuring blood pressure is very important in order to provide the proper treatment and preventive care.

Proper home measurement way for blood pressure:-

Select a reliable blood pressure monitor
Attached the cuff in proper methods

Wrap the cuff around your upper arm directly against the skin
Do not roll up the sleeves of your jacket as may caused the faint pulse
Place the cuff 2 ~ 3 cm higher than your elbow

To achieve more accurate measurement

Sit comfortable at a chair, then rest your arm on the table
Relax yourself for around 5 ~ 10 minutes before the measurement
Place the center of the cuff at the same heights as your heart
Remain still and keep quiet during the measurement
Do not measure your blood pressure right after physical exercise or bath, and better you rest for 20 ~ 30 minutes before taking the measurement
Try to measure your blood pressure at the same time every day

There are many blood pressure monitors in the market, and you need to choose the right blood pressure monitor for your own used. My friend parents are using below blood pressure monitors and just share with you.

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