What good does a blood pressure reading do if you are sitting down with a perfect 120/80 but once you start doing activity’s it rises 10-20 values. Considering that we are active most of the day would the higher values be bad for our body?
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All the comments so far are useful (all aspects of raised blood pressure are relevant to our understanding) but one has been missed. Humans are at rest a lot more than we think. And research has suggested that the BP being raised most of the time consistently, could be at least as damaging to the blood vessels as the spikes associated with activity. Both are important
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