You cannot literally translate everything you read about health. Even if you have a list of correct English-language sources of medical information on your desk, you still can't translate literally.
When the authors of the correct sources (medical experts) publish something to the public, they may be a little under-spoken. This is a medical trick. They think that the audience understands perfectly. But this is not always the case.
Well, or when it is simply impossible to translate something, because it is not in Russian. This also happens. Something similar happened to the topic about the hypertensive crisis from Kuprum.
An author from Kuprum writes that when the blood pressure rises to 180/120 millimeters of mercury, there will be a hypertensive crisis, and the person may need hospitalization. This is wrong.
Pressure 180/120 is not a hypertensive crisis. Many people have 180/120. This is unhealthy, and with such pressure something needs to be done quickly, but this is not a reason to go to the hospital.
A crisis is called such a pressure at which something inside a person is damaged: a heart attack has happened, the retina is detached, cerebral circulation is impaired or pulmonary edema started. If it's just a pressure of 180/120, then this is not a hypertensive crisis.
In Americans, a hypertensive crisis is even called a pressure increased to 180/120. This means that you have to see a doctor.
Our cardiologists consider some kind of hypertensive crisis organ damage from high blood pressure.
In general, there is no rigid pressure framework at which there will be a crisis. Some people lived quite healthy, and then their blood pressure rises slightly, and something can be very badly damaged. For example, pregnant women. They have such complications of pregnancy.
Well, or some young male athlete whose kidneys are inflamed. From this, the pressure jumps. And it is so unusual for an initially healthy athlete that it can damage something in his body.
Got it? A hypertensive crisis is when something inside us has already been damaged by high blood pressure. A hypertensive crisis also occurs at a pressure below 180/120.
Let's go back to Kuprum. Their author believes that with an increase in blood pressure to 180/120, there will be a hypertensive crisis, and a person may need hospitalization.
In our opinion, in Russian, a blood pressure of 180/120 millimeters of mercury is not necessarily a crisis. It may just be uncontrolled arterial hypertension. Ours specifically stopped calling such pressure a crisis so that people would not be dragged to the hospital once again. Such people do not die more often than people with lower blood pressure. So it makes no sense to exaggerate.
In American, blood pressure 180/120 can be called a hypertensive crisis, because that is what Americans call pressure that can potentially harm. But the Americans do not say that with a hypertensive crisis it is imperative to go to the hospital. A person may not feel his 180 \ 120 and not complain. This means that he is not dying right now.
In short, the author of Kuprum crossed ours and foreign ones. Something third turned out. It is very incomprehensible. So you can get confused. Hence the reasonable question - why? And most importantly - what for? Full of Russian-language texts written in simple language by the Russian Society of Cardiology. Take it and read it.
Something is already driving me in. Am I making it clear?
