I did not feel comfort and I went to a clinic to have my BP measured. The physician told me my BP is 170/85. I went the next day and it was 140/70. I was curious about the non-proportional increment. The normal being about 120/80, why differential increment?
It´s useful to remember that blood pressure (BP) usually changes during several periods of the day: during day and night, after physical or mental stress, after meals, etc. It´s also convenient to insist in the frequent artifacts in the determination of BP. In normal people and mainly in the athletes the diastolic pressure usually decreases after physical exercises while the systolic pressure increases with a consecuent augmentation of the differential pressure, like in the older people secondary of the rigid arteries because of the calcium deposits in the vessels wall. So, the refered BP levels are not rare in such circunstances.
One side of changes of BP is circadian rhythm during 24 hours cycle. It depends from your activity. Second side is changes throughout your life: systolic BP increases with age when diastolic BP can decrease and it depends from a process called "stiffening of the arteries". You never explain your current "momental" BP level with simple things exept exercises or sympathetic activity.
I thank you for your sharing your expertise. I am 60 years old and maybe the reason lies with stiffening of the arteries. Do I need to take medicine?
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