I had essential hypertension, or prehypertension. systolic prehypertension
I had essential hypertension, or prehypertension. on january 8th 2019 my blood pressure was 132/81. while this is not exactly considered diagnostic of hypertension. It is not spurious and is systolic hypertension. it can be called systolic prehypertension. I had already started a no salt diet, amongst other things, since I knew that i had, or could already have metabolic syndrome. After doing this diet for a while, more aggressively, for like 1 year to 3 years. or 1.5 years or so, I now have an excellent blood pressure. my blood pressure today was 116/84. october, 18th 2019. the target systolic blood pressure is 115 mm Hg. both of those blood pressures were taken by a nurse at the mgh back bay clinic where I go for my primary care wants when I want to. I talk to Mark W. Dickinson. Adrian Dane Kenny, M.D.