Best Blood Pressure Monitors: Hypertension Blood Pressure Guide

Discover the signs and symptoms of high blood pressure (hypertension) and learn how to control it. Here is a detailed reviewed and recommended information guide on hypertension, symptoms, causes and ‘what treatments work?’ to control or lower high blood pressure.

What is Hypertension?

Hypertension is caused by persistent elevation of blood pressure. The heart is pumping harder to meet the blood needs from various organs of the body.
There are several stages of hypertension which start off with mild increase of blood pressure to the other extreme stage of severe hypertension that can only be treated by medicine for lowering blood pressure.

Stages or Levels of Hypertension

This section describes the stages of hypertension. There are 3 key stages, each crossing a recognised systolic/diastolic threshold. The numbers should be easy to remember as they are rounded to the nearest 5 or 10 mmHG.

Hypertension Mild

Mild hypertension blood pressure ranges 130 to 140 systolic pressure and 85 to 90 diastolic pressure. A person knows when they are feeling a rising blood pressure in their body. The heart rate goes up and they may get palpitations. If they have not had this kind of feeling before then it is possibly an incidence of mild hypertension. Normally, a person will think of indigestion and take a tablet to cure that. If it can be recognised early, preventing hypertension has best chance at this stage.
Find out explanation of more severe stages of hypertension.