This is called systolic hypertension. In honor of the upper, that is, systolic blood pressure. If the upper pressure is higher than 160 millimeters of mercury, and the lower one is below 90 millimeters of mercury, then this will be the same systolic hypertension. It is in older people that it most often happens.
And you don't even have to be a terry hypertensive. It is enough to live up to 60 years, and then, even in a healthy person, the upper pressure will tend to become even higher, and the lower will creep down. Age.
In people under 50, lower blood pressure is much more important. If it scales, then things are bad.
After 60 years, the top or even just the difference between the top and the bottom is more important - pulse pressure.
Sometimes it turns out to be an interesting trick. If the upper pressure remains elevated, and the lower one decreases, then this is more likely bad than good. Because the difference between the top and bottom has become greater. Do you get it?
It turns out that if the lower pressure has dropped below 60 millimeters of mercury, then heart attacks with strokes are more likely to occur from this.
Already starting from about 70 millimeters of mercury, a further drop in lower blood pressure slowly begins to provoke heart attacks, and if the lower pressure falls below 60, then the risk of heart attacks will jump into 2.5 times.
Cardiologists believe it is not about the side effects of antihypertensive drugs, but rather the underlying poor health of these older people. That is, their arteries were already stiff, and their pulse pressure was high. Under such conditions, the upper and lower pressures easily run in different directions. With sad consequences.
It is believed that in this case there is a so-called J-shaped relationship. The initial tail of this letter denotes a lower pressure in the region of 60 millimeters of mercury or below. This is bad.
Then the bulge goes down. This is 70 - 80 millimeters, which is good.
Further, the letter rushes up with a vertical stick. This lower pressure is from 90 and above to 115 millimeters. Everything is very bad there.
It turns out that the most attractive is the lower bulge in the region of 70 - 80 millimeters. It's a tempting goal, but even if you have 60 millimeters, then so be it.
I even wanted to measure my blood pressure once more.
