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What Is Considered Normal For Your Blood Pressure?

September 27, 2008 on 1:43 pm | By admin | In Health & Fitness :: Medicine

On the general medical tag of what is normal and not normal of hypertension, your systolic reading is the one on top and you diastolic reading is the one on the bottom. Normal blood pressure should be less than 120/80. A little higher it would be considered prehypertension and this is between 120/80 and 139/89. After this you go into stage one of hypertension and this is between 140/90 and 159/99. After this you go into a very dangerous stage which is stage two hypertension and this is where your systolic is higher than 160 and your diastolic is higher than 100.