obesity, working to hard, stress, illnesses can also affect blood pressure.
facts!
Blood pressure is measured in
millimetres of mercury
(mmHg) and is given as 2
figures: systolic pressure – the
pressure when your heart
pushes blood out diastolic
pressure – the pressure when
your heart rests between
beats
High blood pressure
(also referred to as
HBP, or
hypertension) is
when your blood
pressure, the force
of blood flowing
through your blood
vessels, is
consistently too high