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High Blood Pressure

What is blood pressure?

Blood pressure is the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries. Each time your heart beats, it pumps blood into the arteries. Your blood pressure is highest when your heart beats, pumping the blood. This is called systolic pressure. When your heart is at rest, between beats, your blood pressure falls. This is called diastolic pressure.

Your blood pressure reading uses these two numbers. Usually the systolic number comes before or above the diastolic number. For example, 120/80 means a systolic of 120 and a diastolic of 80.

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  1. High Blood Pressure (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... 120 and a diastolic of 80. How is high blood pressure diagnosed? High blood pressure usually has no symptoms. So the only way ... to some providers)130 or higheror80 or higherDangerously high blood pressure - seek medical care right away180 or higherand120 or ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/highbloodpressure.html - Health Topics
  2. Pulmonary Hypertension (National Library of Medicine)  
    What is pulmonary hypertension? Pulmonary hypertension, sometimes called PH, is a serious condition that affects the blood vessels in the lungs. It develops ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/pulmonaryhypertension.html - Health Topics
  3. How to Prevent High Blood Pressure (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. has high blood pressure, or hypertension. Many of those people don't know they ... no warning signs. This can be dangerous, because high blood pressure can lead to life-threatening conditions like heart ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/howtopreventhighbloodpressure.html - Health Topics
  4. Blood Pressure Medicines (National Library of Medicine)  
    What is high blood pressure? High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is when blood puts too much pressure against the walls of your arteries. Almost half of American adults ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/bloodpressuremedicines.html - Health Topics
  5. High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy (National Library of Medicine)  
    What is high blood pressure in pregnancy? Blood pressure is the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is when this force against your ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/highbloodpressureinpregnancy.html - Health Topics
  6. DASH Eating Plan (National Library of Medicine)  
    DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. It is an eating plan that is based on research studies sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). These studies ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/dasheatingplan.html - Health Topics
  7. Pulmonary arterial hypertension 
    Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a progressive disorder characterized by abnormally high blood pressure (hypertension) in the pulmonary artery, the blood vessel ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/.../pulmonary-arterial-hypertension - Genetics
  8. Pulmonary hypertension 
    Pulmonary hypertension is high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. It makes the right side of the heart work harder than normal.
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000112.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  9. Hypertension 
    Hypertension is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries, which are the blood vessels that carry blood ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/hypertension - Genetics
  10. Pulmonary hypertension - at home 
    Pulmonary hypertension (PAH) is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. With PAH, the right side of the heart has to work harder than normal. As ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000345.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
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