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Blood pressure is subject to fluctuations during the day even
in healthy people. The fluctuations are influenced by a number of
factors – time of day, person’s condition, physical or mental activ-
ity, environment, etc.
Day-Night Fluctuations of the Blood Pressure
An increase of blood pressure increases the burden onto the
heart, affects blood vessels making their walls thick and less elas-
tic. One of the features of the hypertension is its ability to remain
unnoticed for the patient at its early stages. That’s why the self-
control of the blood pressure is so important. With the illness
progressing, headaches and regular dizziness appear, the sight
declines, the functioning of vitalses (encephalon, heart, kidneys,
blood vessels) breaks down. Without special treatment the com-
plications of hypertension might be kidney damages, breast-pang,
paralytic stroke, aphasia, dementia, heart attack and stroke.
9.2. Which values are normal?
The world standard as for the norms of the blood pressure is
the Classification* of the World Health Organization (WHO):
Blood
Pressure
Category
Systolic
Blood
Pressure
(mmHg)
Systolic
Blood
Pressure
(mmHg)
Measures
Hypotension < 00 < 60 Doctor’s
control
Optimum
pressure
00 … 0 60 … 80 Self-control
Normal
pressure
0 … 0 80 … 85 Self-control
High normal
pressure
0 … 40 85 … 90 Self-control,
mode of life
correction
Mild hyper-
tension
40 … 60 90 … 00 Consultation
with doctor
Moderate
hypertension
60 … 80 00 … 0 Consultation
with doctor
Severe hyper-
tension
> 80 > 0 Consultation
with doctor
* printed with curtailments
• The diagnosis of hypertension requires from the patient to
combine medical treatment prescribed by the doctor and
mode of life correction.
• People with normal pressure and high normal pressure are rec-
ommended to carry out self-control of their tension in order
to timely take measures to decrease the blood pressure level
down to the optimal one without using any medications.
• For people more than 50 years old high level of systolic blood
pressure (higher than 40 mmHg) is more crucial than diasto-
lic pressure.
0
60
50
40
0
0
0
00
90
80
0
60
50
40
8.00 0.00 .00 4.00 6.00 8.00 0.00 .00 4.00 .00 4.00 6.00 8.00
SYS blood pressure
DIA blood pressure