Sunbeam 7659 Manual De Usuario

Standards for assessment of high or low blood 

 without regard to age,

have been established by the World Health 

 (WHO), as shown in this

chart.

(Fig. 1)

 

Normal blood

pressure type

Hypertense

pressure type

1 4 0

Reference Material: Investigation into Adult Diseases Report by the Ministry of Health

and Social Security, 1971.

Individual blood pressures vary greatly both on a daily and a seasonal basis.

These variations are even more pronounced in hypertense patients. Normally the

blood pressure rises while at work and is at its lowest during the sleeping

period. The graph below illustrates the variations in blood pressure over a whole

day with measurement taken every five minutes.

A

B

(Fig. 

2)

 

 eep

PM

Time

AM

Shown is data tor measurements taken every 5 minutes. The thick line represents sleep.

The rise in blood pressure at 4 PM (A in the graph) and 12 PM (B in the graph) corre-

spond to an attack of pain and sexual intercourse. (Beven, Honour   

 

 Sci.

 1969.)