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• 90 over 60 (90/60) or less: You may have low blood pressure. More on low blood pressure.
• More than 90 over 60 (90/60) and less than 120 over 80 (120/80): Your blood pressure reading is ideal and healthy. Follow a healthy lifestyle to keep it at this level.
• More than 120 over 80 and less than 140 over 90 (120/80-140/90): You have a normal blood pressure reading but it is a little higher than it should be, and you should try to lower it. Make healthy changes to your lifestyle.
• 140 over 90 (140/90) or higher (over a number of weeks): You may have high blood pressure (hypertension). Change your lifestyle - see your doctor or nurse and take any medicines they may give you. More on high blood pressure

• If your top number is 140 or more, then you may have high blood pressure, regardless of your bottom number.
• If your bottom number is 90 or more, then you may have high blood pressure, regardless of your top number.
• If your top number is 90 or less, then you may have low blood pressure, regardless of your bottom number.
• If your bottom number is 60 or less, then you may have low blood pressure, regardless of your top number.

According to Harvard Medical School, people who have high blood pressure, or at high risk for developing it, checking and keep monitoring blood pressure yourself at home is a must. Because, your blood pressure can changes from hour to hour, sometimes even minute to minute influenced by your daily activities.

Here are a few reasons

• To find your real blood pressure: avoid masked hypertension, normal blood pressure in the doctor's office but high blood pressure everywhere else.
• To improve your control: Instead of a getting your blood-pressure reading once every few months under unusual conditions at a doctor's office, you can get a reading every week or so at home to keep it under your control.
• To track your progress: get a vital information about your blood pressure if it's getting better or worse
• To save times and medications: since you can do it at home you do not have to go to the doctor's office
• To run with the right crowd: of those who have their blood pressure in control since many do not

If you have high blood pressure, here are the things you should do:

• Do check your blood pressure at home to keep it under control
• Use an automatic monitor with a cuff that fits around your arm and that keeps track of your readings.
• Check your blood pressure once in the morning, before you have taken your blood pressure pills, and once in the evening for a week, then one or two days a month after that and follow the plan your doctor recommends.
• Avoid caffeinated or alcoholic beverages, and don't smoke, during the 30 minutes before the test.
• Sit quietly for five minutes with your back supported and feet on the floor.
• When making the measurement, support your arm so your elbow is at the level of your heart.
• Push your sleeves out of the way and wrap the cuff over bare skin. Measure your blood pressure according to the machine's instructions. Leave the deflated cuff in place, wait a minute, then take a second reading. If the readings are close, average them. If not, repeat again and average the three readings.
• Don't panic if a reading is high. Relax for a few minutes and try again.
• Keep a record of your blood pressure readings and the time of day they are made.

And here are the changes you can make to manage high blood pressure according to the American Heart Association (AHA).