Blood pressure and pulse

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J0nathan

I have a follow up appointment this week, and the absence of any instruction other than ‘take your blood pressure for two weeks’, I suppose I should prepare some analysis in advance.

I found this:

National guidelines recommend that the most reliable way to record average home blood pressure is to record the lowest of 2-3 readings taken morning and evening for 7 consecutive days. We then ignore the first day's readings and calculate the average blood pressure for days 2-7.

When deciding what is the lowest, would that be based on the Sys or Dia figure?

Presumably when calculating average, I simply add up all the Sys and divide by amount, same for Dia?

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bluehuw in reply to @J0nathan

systolic pressure – the pressure when your heart pushes blood out
diastolic pressure – the pressure when your heart rests between beats

^From NHS... I just write them all down do an average and say how I did it, they'll know within a short glance

(That what the numbers are wasn't for you as such more i had forgotten)

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