How can you understand a blood-pressure reading?
Blood pressure is the most underrated number after 40: it doesn’t hurt, yet it decides how your vessels age. Enter your reading — we’ll show its clinical category.
Within the norm. It’s kept there by the same habits as everything else: movement, sleep, less salt and alcohol.
Source: the ESC/ESH 2018 classification. Measure seated after 5 minutes of rest, cuff at heart level; the higher of the two values sets the category. This is a guide, not a diagnosis — a doctor diagnoses from readings on different days.
How to use the result
How it works
We match your numbers against the clinical categories — from optimal pressure to the grades of hypertension.
How to read the result
One reading does not establish a diagnosis. Rest first, use the correct cuff and record several values.
Limitations
Very high pressure with chest pain, breathlessness, weakness, speech or vision changes requires urgent help.
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