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the patient at its early stages. That’s why the self control of the blood pres-
sure is so important. With the illness progressing, headaches and regular
dizziness appear, the sight declines, the functioning of vitals (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.
Which Values are Normal?
The world standard as for the norms of the blood pressure is the
Classification* of the World Health Organization (WHO):
Category
Systolic
Blood Pressure
(mmHg)
Diastolic
Blood Pressure
(mmHg)
Blood pressure too low
< 100
< 60
Blood pressure optimum
100 - 119
60 - 79
Blood pressure normal
120 - 129
80 - 84
Blood pressure slightly high
130 - 139
85 - 89
Blood pressure too high
140 - 159
90 - 99
Blood pressure far too high
160 - 179
100 - 109
Blood pressure dangerously high
≥ 180
≥ 110
* Printed with curtailments.
• The diagnosis of hypertension requires from the patient to combine medi-
cal treatment prescribed by the doctor and mode of life correction.
• People with normal pressure and high normal pressure are recom-
mended 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 140 mmHg) is more crucial than diastolic pressure.
• Even with blood pressure being normal, people run the bigger risk of
hypertension development with advancing age.
