What is high blood pressure?
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 09:28
in Health & Medicine
If your reading is consistently 140 over 90, or higher, over a number of weeks you probably have high blood pressure. Your blood pressure may also be high if just one of the numbers is higher than it should be. High blood pressure usually has no signs or symptoms so the only way to know if you have high blood pressure is to have yours measured. However, a single high reading does not necessarily mean you have high blood pressure.
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