Gamma M2-W, Instruction Book

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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 activity, environment, etc.
Day-Night Fluctuations of the Blood Pressure
An increase of blood pressure increases the burden onto the heart, af-
fects blood vessels making their walls thick and less elastic. One of the fea-
tures 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 impor-
tant. 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 complications
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 Clas-
sification* of the World Health Organization (WHO):
Blood Pressure
Category
Systolic Blood
Pressure
(mmHg)
Systolic
Blood Pres-
sure (mmHg)
Measures
Hypotension < 100 < 60 Doctor’s control
Optimum pres-
sure
100 … 120 60 … 80 Self-control
170
160
150
140
130
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
8.00 10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00 18.00 20.00 22.00 24.00 2.00 4.00 6.00 8.00
SYS blood pressure
DIA blood pressure