Starting at age 20 the aha recommends a blood pressure screening at your regular healthcare visit or once every 2 years if your blood pressure is less than 120 80 mm hg. If you also have heart disease diabetes chronic kidney disease or certain other conditions you may need to treat your blood pressure more aggressively.

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These recommendations address high blood pressure as a single health condition.

Human blood pressure psi. Maintain or adopt a healthy lifestyle. The target blood pressure for most healthy adults is 120 80 where 120 is the systolic blood pressure during heart contraction and 80 is the diastolic blood pressure during heart relaxation. People who have high.

Those of you who beat me to the calculator will have converted these numbers to psi and resulted in 2 32 1 55 as the normal pressure range. Elevated blood pressure from 120. A blood pressure reading of 140 90 mm hg now qualifies as stage ii hypertension and not stage i as it used to be.

Normal resting blood pressure in an adult is approximately 120 millimetres of mercury 16 kpa systolic over 80 millimetres of mercury 11 kpa diastolic denoted as 120 80 mmhg. This category now forms two separate ranges.