To expand our knowledge and help us be mindful, what is considered normal blood pressure and what is considered high blood pressure.

Laurie, that info is easy to find if you search. Even Wikipedia ("Hypertension") is a more reliable soirce for answers than a Town Square forum.

Common Sense - That wasn't the point. It is a lengthy article about a meaningful subject that is missing some basic information. It is best to keep blood pressure readings below 120 over 80. If they exceed 140 over 90, changes need to be made to diet, exercise, stress.

Laurie, For most of our lives, 120/80 is the ideal combination. When you reach a senior age -- over 60, this BP level becomes higher. At that point 140/90 is the medium value for most people.

Laurie, with all respect: Yes, that WAS the point -- i.e., the point in your message that came across.

Given the limitations of a text-based medium, readers have only a writer's words to go by (not their thoughts or intent). And, on the one hand, it's common today for someone reading an article like this to pose a general factual question back to the author when it's more easily and accurately looked up by self-service search. While on the other hand, Embarcadero Media employs journalists, not physicians; they report what the interviewee said or the info that was distributed; therefore, limitations in that information reside with the source, and it's to the source, rather than to the messenger, that any questions or criticisms of the factual content belong.