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> pressure still elevated around 125/80 Elevated? 120/80 is perfect. 135/x seems only a bit worrying for everyone around me. I recently had around 150/x for whole week.

I know something is going on, keeping on doing the checks, but saying 125/80 is elevated sounds so silly to me. I've never seen such nice pressure on myself.

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I have a lousy family history with heart issues, stokes, on and on. After a lousy year mine hit pre-hyper and I worked on stress reduction and more exercise. I was monitoring BP regularly. That was high for me compared to the past few years.

120/80 is now considered per-hypertension.

Source? I have never seen 120/80 mmHg, which is vastly considered normal for those without CV disease, labelled as pre-hypertension.

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