High blood pressure in young adults. Part 1
High blood pressure in young adults. Part 1 When you come in for a checkup with the hospital, whether it’s headache, fever, toothache, fall injury, insomnia or to give birth, everyone will receive a blood pressure test. Sometime the value might be higher than normal and we would give ourselves answers along the line of feeling sick, hunger, anxiousness, stress, etc. and when we come in for our yearly health checkup and our blood pressure level is higher than normal again, we would repeat the answers we had previously given ourselves. So how do we stop to consider whether the number shown from the high blood pressure test that we receive pre-consultation is accurate and is something we need to be concern about? What we recommend is the come to the hospital again in about 2 weeks, after we get well from the sickness, specifically for blood pressure check. You should do the check when you get to rest at the hospital for at least 5 mins and be of a stable and calm mood for the most accurate measurement. Some people when taken measurement at the hospital the blood pressure level may be high but when they check the level at home everything is normal. We call this white coat hypertension which is the condition that some patient group is anxious around white gown so they need to have pressure measuring equipment at home that they can do a
