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Monitoring your blood pressure is essential to helping control elevated blood pressure or hypertension, which can cause stroke, heart attack, kidney damage or other organ damage.

Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). The classifications in the table below are for people who aren't taking antihypertensive (blood pressure-lowering) drugs and aren't acutely ill. When a person's systolic and diastolic pressures fall into different categories, the higher category is used to classify the blood pressure status. Diagnosing high blood pressure is based on the average of two or more readings taken at each of two or more visits after an initial screening.

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Classification of blood pressure for adults age 18 years and older

Category	Systolic (mm Hg)		Diastolic (mm Hg)
Normal*	less than 120	and	less than 80
Prehypertension	120–139	or	80–89
Hypertension
Stage 1	140–159	or	90–99
Stage 2	160 or higher	or	100 or higher

* Unusually low readings should be evaluated for clinical significance.

(From the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure)

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Hypertension is called the silent killer, but when pressure gets to extremes, it can cause pain and discomfort and death. At moderate elevated levels it can cause damage to blood vessels and organs day after day.

The following products can help you monitor your blood pressure and help you understand if your methods for controlling hypertension are working. If you are under a doctor's care for hypertension, your physician will appreciate having the extra data from your home monitoring of your blood pressure. With better information, your physician is able to make better treatment decisions that may improve the effectiveness of medications and prevent over-medication, which could negatively affect human performance.








Blood Pressure Table provided by Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.

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