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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

There are a few guidelines that physicians tend to follow and these are the Cardiology/American Heart Association (C/AHA) and the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood pressure. This reading may fluctuate throughout the day. The “bottom” number is the diastolic number.