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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: blood pressure
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:56:16 -0500
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:26:20 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:47:54 -0300, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
>
>
>>	Optimal blood pressure is when it does not significantly
>>increase cardiovascular risk (heart attacks and strokes).
>>	That would be <140 over <90 for middle age and over.
>>	Any other values are big-pharma crap.
>>
>>	My grandparents lived to their 90's (one had her 103
>>birthday). Their average blood pressure was in the region of 130/90.
>>	3 of them died due to complications from LOWERING their blood
>>pressure far too much. New WHO "blood pressure guide". 18 of the 19
>>"experts" admitted to funding by big pharma.....
>
>For your amusement only.  
>
>My body mechanic wants me to do a BP test every evening exactly 1 hr
>after I take my BP meds to see if they're still effective:
><https://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/crud/BP-2025-11-01.jpg>
>The black and blue lines are the actual data from a cheap Omron
>BP-7100 BP monitor.  Notice how erratic the numbers appear.  To make
>some sense of the erratic numbers, I add the red lines, which are the
>average of the previous 7 days measurements.  That makes the results
>look somewhat less erratic.  Using the average numbers, I'm considered
>borderline acceptable.  Previous attempts to lower the systolic
>numbers resulted in also lowering the diastolic to unacceptably low
>numbers.  So, what you see is the best I can do.  I've tried other BP
>monitor which produced similar erratic results.
>
>The graph also demonstrates that a single BP measurement isn't really
>adequate for determining whether there are any "high blood pressure"
>issues.

My BP also varies quite a bit. I try to take it about the same time
every day while I'm sitting in the same position. Simply crossing my
legs can make a big difference. Standing up really throws it off.

--
C'est bon
Soloman