Introduction - What is Hypertension?
Hypertension: Can be defined has having High blood pressure, the ranges below show ranges of blood pressure which fall into either normal presures or hypertention pressures.
Diastolic - The blood pressure during relaxation and dilatation of the ventricles of the heart, the time when the ventricles are filling with blood.
<85 Normal
>90 Hypertension
Systolic - The blood pressure when the vemntricles of the heart is contracting. It is the maximum arterial pressure during contraction of the left ventricle of the heart.
<140 Normal
>159 Hypertension
There are two Hypertension types:
Essential hypertension (EH) - Known risk factors but no clear cause
Secondary hypertension (SH) - Occurs consequent to a clinical condition
Resources
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Heart during ventricular Diastole