Have you checked your Blood Pressure recently? – Good advice by Dr. Harold   You get high blood pressure as you get older. Being a slow process of increase, you may not have any prodromal signs, until one day you feel dizzy. Blood pressure is cause by pushing the blood from the left lower chamber of your heart against the walls of the arteries that develops a resistance due to thickening (arteriosclerosis). As you know, your doctor will give you two readings when he checks your BP: upper pressure represents the pressure caused by the contraction of the left lower chamber of the heart (ejection pressure), and the lower reading represents the diastolic pressure due to the pressure in the arteries as the heart dilates. In healthy active situation the best readings of your BP should be-systolic 120mm and your diastolic below 80 mm. High blood pressure (hypertension) is now ...

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