What is hypertension?
Hypertension refers to persistently raised blood pressure. In this video, Dr Ravi Assomull explains how blood pressure targets are defined.
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Transcript
Hypertension refers to the raised pressure in the vascular system of your body. Typically, we expect your blood pressure to be less than 135 mmHg when your heart is contracting and less than 85 mmHg when your heart is relaxed.
