What is the average blood pressure & heart rate and all that?

Question

I have an at-home bp machine so I don't know how accurate that is. My blood pressure was 90/64 and my pulse rate was 91. I don't have health insurance which is basically why I'm asking. I'm just curious to know what's the norm? I'm a 20 year old female. 5'2 and weigh about 110.

Answer 1

What is high blood pressure?

When you have high blood pressure, or hypertension, the force of blood against your artery walls is too strong. High blood pressure can damage your arteries, heart, and kidneys, and lead to atherosclerosis and stroke. Hypertension is called a "silent killer'' because it does not cause symptoms unless it is severely high and, without your knowing it, causes major organ damage if not treated.

Your blood pressure measurement consists of two numbers: systolic and diastolic.

The systolic measurement is the pressure of blood against your artery walls when the heart has just finished pumping (contracting). It is the first or top number of a blood pressure reading.
The diastolic measurement is the pressure of blood against your artery walls between heartbeats, when the heart is relaxed and filling with blood. It is the second or bottom number in a blood pressure reading.
Level
Systolic
Diastolic

High blood pressure is: 140 or above 90 or above
Prehypertension is: 120 to 139 80 to 89
Normal adult (age 18 or older) blood pressure is: 119 or below 79 or below

Millions of people whose blood pressure was previously considered borderline high (130–139/85–89 mm Hg) or normal (120/80) now fall into the "prehypertension" range, based on new, more aggressive high blood pressure guidelines from the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee (JNC 7) on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. 1

Because new studies show the risk of heart disease and stroke begins to increase at lower blood pressures than previously believed, health experts lowered the acceptable normal range to promote more aggressive and earlier treatment of high blood pressure. 1

What causes high blood pressure?

In most cases, a doctor may not be able to pinpoint the exact cause of your high blood pressure. But several factors are known to increase blood pressure, including obesity, heavy alcohol use, family history of high blood pressure, high salt intake, and aging. A sedentary lifestyle, stress, low potassium intake, low calcium intake, and resistance to insulin may also cause your blood pressure to rise.

What are the symptoms?

Usually you will not feel any warning signs or symptoms of high blood pressure, and you will not know you have it until a health professional takes a blood pressure reading. Hypertension develops slowly and can cause serious organ damage, usually without any symptoms.

If you develop severe high blood pressure, you may have headaches, visual disturbances, nausea, and vomiting. Malignant high blood pressure (hypertensive crisis), which is hypertension that rises rapidly, can also cause these symptoms. Untreated malignant hypertension can damage the brain, heart, eyes, or kidneys. It is a medical emergency that requires immediate hospitalization.

Over time, if you do not receive treatment for your high blood pressure, you may experience symptoms caused by damage to your heart, kidney, or eyes, including coronary artery disease, stroke, and kidney (renal) failure.

How is high blood pressure diagnosed?

Most people find out they have high blood pressure during a routine doctor visit. To confirm that you have high blood pressure, your blood pressure must reach or exceed 140/90 mm Hg on three or more separate occasions. It is usually measured 1 to 2 weeks apart. Except in very severe cases, the diagnosis is not based on a single measurement.

If there is reason to suspect that the blood pressure measurements taken in the doctor's office do not represent your accurate blood pressure (if, for example, you have white-coat hypertension), you may need to check your blood pressure away from the doctor's office. Your blood pressure can rise more than 20 mm Hg systolic and 10 mm Hg diastolic from white-coat hypertension. Even routine activities, such as attending a meeting, can raise your blood pressure by that amount. Other factors that can raise your blood pressure include commuting to work, exposure to cold, and drinking large amounts of alcohol.

Your doctor may have you check your blood pressure at home 3 times a day and keep a record of the readings. Or you may need to wear an automated blood pressure cuff that periodically inflates and takes blood pressure measurements during the day. This is called ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

How is it treated?

If you fall into the prehypertension range (120–139/80–89 mm Hg), your doctor will likely recommend lifestyle modifications, including losing excess weight, exercising, limiting alcohol, cutting back on salt, quitting smoking, and following the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet. The DASH eating plan is a low-fat and low-saturated-fat diet that emphasizes eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy foods.

If you have high blood pressure (140–159/90–99 mm Hg) and you do not have any organ damage or other risk factors for heart disease (uncomplicated high blood pressure), your doctor will likely recommend lifestyle changes and possibly medications. Most people with high blood pressure will need two or more medications, including a thiazide-type diuretic, to lower their blood pressure to below 140/90 mm Hg, the goal for people with uncomplicated hypertension. If you have other conditions, such as diabetes, heart failure, or chronic kidney disease, your goal blood pressure is lower: 130/80 mm Hg.

If your blood pressure is 160–179/100–109 mm Hg or higher, you and your doctor may need to try various combinations of medications to find what works best for you. You will also need to make aggressive lifestyle changes.

Overall, your treatment will depend upon how high your blood pressure is, whether you have other medical conditions, such as diabetes, and whether any organs have already been damaged. Your risk of developing other diseases, especially heart disease, will be another important factor your doctor will consider.

What increases my risk of developing high blood pressure?

Several factors increase your risk for high blood pressure. Some of them are lifestyle issues you can control.

Lifestyle issues you can control to lower your risk of developing high blood pressure include obesity and not being active or exercising, drinking alcohol (three drinks a day or more), eating a lot of salty or processed foods, and not getting enough calcium, magnesium, and potassium in your diet.

Risk factors you can't control include a family history of high blood pressure, your race (being African-American increases your risk), and aging. Ninety percent of people who, at age 55, do not have hypertension will eventually develop it.

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Your blood pressure reading uses these two numbers, the systolic and diastolic pressures. Usually they are written one above or before the other. A reading of

120/80 or lower is normal blood
140/90 or higher is high blood pressure
120 and 139 for the top number, or between 80 and 89 for the bottom number is prehypertension




Pulse for resting heart rate:

newborn infants; 100 to 160 beats per minute
children 1 to 10 years; 70 to 120 beats per minute
children over 10 and adults (including seniors); 60 to 100 beats per minute
well-trained athletes; 40 to 60 beats per minute

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/highbloodpressure.html

Answer 6

A normal adult heart rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute.

A normal blood pressure is less than 120 / less than 80.

Answer 7

Normal blood pressure is 120/80.
http://www.sizes.com/people/blood_pressure.htm
You can check out that page, if ya like.
An normal pulse in an adult female is 76 to 80.

If you feel healthy, I don't really think you have anything to worry about. Make sure you visit your doctor for check up's and everything though. Don't worry too much about these kinda things because they are, of course, only a guideline and worrying is not good for you.

There is such a wide variable in the human factor of things that there is no real average!

Hope this helps :)

Answer 8

You should read "The Blood Pressure Solution" (also available in electronic format here: http://www.bloodpressuresolution.pw ) It's a very comprehensive step-by-step book that walks you through the natural remedies of high blood pressure. It provides you with a lot of information on what foods to eat, how you can acquire and prepare these foods, how you can change your lifestyle for the better, how to eliminate the toxins from your body, how to reduce stress, how you can check your blood pressure level the correct way etc.

The book is amazing in that it not only lowers your blood pressure without the help of medications; it also aids you in having a life that is healthy, happier, and less stressful. This book chanced my life.

Answer 9

I suffer with high blood pressure my pressure is usually between 128 or 135 80-87 since I had an accident my blood pressure has been very overwhelming 190/109 back and forth. however since starting physical therapy and taking garlic pills my blood pressure has been ok today it was 113/83 but my pulse has been high 118-120 ??? any ideas on why my pulse rate is high or is this normal.

Answer 10

120/80 is what we strive for although you wouldn't be considered as having hypertension unless the numbers were above139/89

anything above that the doctor would get you to diet and exercise to try and lower it if it wasn't too high then if that wouldn't work , medication

average resting pulse rate is 72 beats per minute

You cannot get an accurate BP reading from one reading

to be accurate you need to take it evryday and average it out over a two week period


Not a doctor but a pharmacist

Answer 11

that is kind of low blood pressure but for me it would be fine - some people have lower and some have higher and its normal for them. mine is from 90/70 - 110/75 - your heart rate is fine