The World Health Organization (WHO) has set the following
guideline for the assessing of blood pressure values:
Too high
Normal –
borderline
Normal
Optimum
Systolic
over 140 mmHg
130 to 139 mmHg
120 to 129 mmHg
up to 119 mmHg
Diastolic
over 90 mmHg
85 to 89 mmHg
80 to 84 mmHg
up to 79 mmHg
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