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Re:Doctors Have Been Measuring Blood Pressure All Wrong, Stu... by vjk800 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:42AM (#37477581)
> - Also important is the delta between systolic and diastolic. Mine is around 40 mmHg, if it's higher than that, it's an indicator of a stress peak (bad sleep, bad day, overwhelmed) that usually resolves after a couple days.

Is this universally true or just you? Is there any source for this? My diastolic pressure is always in the normal numbers while my systolic pressure is borderline high, resulting in a pretty high delta (50-60 mmHg). Sometimes I also get numbers in the normal range for systolic pressure, but maybe 75% of the time it's a bit high.

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Re:Doctors Have Been Measuring Blood Pressure All Wrong, Stu... by sph on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:51AM (#37479161)
Diastolic is the pressure at rest, systolic is the pressure during a heart beat. The reasonable explanation of a higher systolic than usual is your heart pumping more volume than usual. Usually and in my experience this means being anxious or not completely rested/sleep deprived.
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