A question from Billiam92407: What is a Good Blood Pressure reading for a 40 year old, Healthy man?
What is a good blood pressure reading… and what would be a bad blood pressure reading for a 40 year old man?
Thanks for the 1st part…. good is 120 over 80. What is the second part?
a bad reading is?
The best answer:
Answer by Pam H
120/80 is considered “normal”.
Provide your own answer to this question below!
The current guideline suggests that your BP should be less than 120/80. Any reading above that is considered high.
A BP reading of 120 over 80 falls under the “pre-hypertensive” stage, wherein you should seriously start to modify your diet and lifestyle into a more healthy way of living.
Anywhere from 112/79 to 137/87
for a 40-yr. old
120/80
What is good for an individual may not be good to the other individual. What is acceptable as normal blood pressure is between 90/60 to 140/90 mmHg. Below 90/60 is low blood pressure. Beyond 140/90 mmHg is High blood pressure.
Each individual has his own normal blood pressure. For example, mine is 130/80 mmHg. If it goes beyond that under nomal circumstances, then I must understand that something wrong might going on with my circulation that caused my blood pressure to rise. If it goes below it, the same story. Only this time, my blood pressure dropped. Do you see my point?
What is important is you maintain your blood pressure through out your life time which seems possible except if HYPERTENSION runs in your family. It is a fact that blood pressure rises as we age. But that accours at aorund 50′s and up. So, the best blood pressure for a 40-year old individual is his blood pressure AS USUAL. It is necessary to routinely monitor your blood pressure so you can have baseline data to refer to.
These are partly right.
Your top number, or systolic measurement is how much pressure your heart is working against when it contracts, or when it is working.
Your bottom number (diastolic) is the meassurement of how much pressure there is when the heart is at rest.
The systolic changes with activity, short term stress, caffeine, etc.. This is important to know, because only a pattern of elevated systolics can prove hypertension.
The diastolic changes gradually relative to the systolic. This is a far better indicator of overall cariovascular health. 80 millimeters of Mercury (mmHg) is about as high a diastolic number as you would want.
Understand that blood pressure is always changing, and a difference of several mmHg can be seen in two accurate, back to back readings. Our bodies are dynamic. A pattern is what you want to watch for. Don’t feel too bad or congratulate yourself too much for a high or normal reading , respectively.
Peace.