Gamma Active - Which Values Are Normal?

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Day-Night Fluctuations of the Blood Pressure
An increase of blood pressure increases the burden onto the heart, affects blood
vessels making their walls thick and less elastic.
One of the features of the hypertension is its ability to remain unnoticed
for the patient at its early stages. That’s why the selfcontrol of the blood
pressure is so important. 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.
Which Values are Normal?
Monitoring your routine blood pressure trend helps you to know your body
condition. Human blood pressure naturally increases after reaching middle age.
This symptom is a result of continuous ageing of the blood vessels. Further
causes include obesity, lack of exercise and cholesterol (LDL) adhering to the
blood vessels, diabetes. Rising blood pressure accelerates hardening of the
arteries, and the body becomes more susceptible to apoplexy and coronary
infarction.
Denitions and Classication of blood pressure levels according to 2007 ESH-
ESC Practice Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension: Data in
mmHg.
Category
Systolic
(mmHg)
Diastolic
(mmHg)
Optimal < 120 and < 80
Normal*3 120-129 and/or 80-84
High normal 130-139 and/or 85-89
Grade 1
hypertension
140-159 and/or 90-99