Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: blood pressure Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 14:56:16 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:56:20 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0d2ba2ca1c94545bae362dbd2f837261"; logging-data="813108"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX185Yb5rQIFH9/7a7qCel1CIKPtCN68dih0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jdtHuqN7JhPZ0Eumc+ZUFaFrafE= Bytes: 3092 On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:26:20 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:47:54 -0300, Shadow 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: > >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