General Information On Blood Pressure; Who And Ish Classification Of High Blood Pressure Limits; Introduction - Hartmann TENSOVAL MOBIL Instructions For Use Manual

1. Introduction

Dear Customer,
We are pleased that you have
decided to purchase a wrist blood
pressure monitor from HARTMANN.
Tensoval mobil is a quality product
for fully automatic self-measure-
ment of blood pressure on the wrist.
Requiring no preliminary settings,
this device conveniently inflates
automatically for easy, quick and
reliable measurement of the systolic
and diastolic blood pressures as
well as the pulse rate. Using the
HARTMANN Comfort Air Technol-
ogy, this device automatically deter-
mines the maximum inflation pres-
sure to be used for comfortable
individualised blood pressure meas-
World Health Organisation (WHO) blood pressure targets, 1999
Assessment
Optimal
Normal
Normal limit values
Grade 1 hypertension
Grade 2 hypertension
Grade 3 hypertension
urements. This device is designed
to optimally support you in taking
blood pressure measurements. We
wish you all the best for your
health.
2. General information on blood
pressure
2.1 WHO and ISH classification
of high blood pressure limits
The World Health Organisation
(WHO) and the International
Society of Hypertension (ISH) have
developed the following classifica-
tion for blood pressure values:
Systolic pressure
up to 120 mmHg
up to 130 mmHg
130 – 139 mmHg
140 – 159 mmHg
160 – 179 mmHg
over 180 mmHg
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Diastolic pressure
up to 80 mmHg
up to 85 mmHg
85 – 89 mmHg
90 – 99 mmHg
100 – 109 mmHg
over 110 mmHg