High Blood Pressure - Are You At Risk?

High Blood Pressure - Are You At Risk?: "When your heart pumps blood, pressure is exerted against the walls of the arteries, prompting the term “blood pressure'. While your heart is actively pumping blood, your blood pressure is at its highest, referred to as systolic pressure. When your heart is at rest - between beats - your blood pressure falls, this is diastolic pressure. These two numbers are used to determine your blood pressure with the systolic pressure being placed ahead of the diastolic pressure and written one above or before the other, such as 120/80 (normal). Both of these numbers are important. Any reading above 120/80 places the body at risk, the higher the pressure, the greater the risk."