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Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
Date:
Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:04:40 -0500
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Blood pressure readings can change throughout the day, so the key is
to take the readings at different times and record them.  That will
tell the doctor if he or she needs to be really concerned.

Kat


On 18 Dec 2005, at 20:57, ken barber wrote:

> if the top drops as much by tomorrow as it did today
> it will be getting very close to just being
> borderline. i don't think the lower number needs to do
> much  more dropping.
>
> --- Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>>     I was always told the lower one(diastolic) was
>> most important since it
>> represents the least amount of pressure in the
>> system. Now, they look at
>> both. Abthing over 140 iis considered "high" on the
>> top(systolic)
>> number.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>>> well the last 2 days has been in normal range for
>> the
>>> lower number and goinf down for top number. in 4
>> days
>>> it has went from 180/110 to 162/62. yesterday
>> alone it
>>> was 178/82. i think the bottom number is as low as
>> i
>>> remember it being. how low should it drop? the top
>>> number is still a bit into the high range.
>>>
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