"it's a bit high" (for your age eg).
Times have changed. Pulling out my Pschyrembel Klinisches Wörterbuch for 1986 - and this is the ultimate authority for German Medical Practicioners, even today in the latest published version - we find the following table:
BP in mmHg Normalwerte (note that - Normal Values !)
Newborn: 60-80 systolic
Breastfeeding: 80-90 systolic
Up to 10 years of age: 90/60
10-30 years of age: 110/75
30-40 years of age: 125/85
40-60 years of age: 140/90
Over 60: 150/90
This table reflects average hardening of arteries pushing the blood pressure up as a person gets older.
Today doctors tell people it should be around 135/80 for all age groups. Well, were the doctors of 30 years ago wrong ? Are the present doctors wrong ? Who knows ! Yers pays yer money and yer takes yer choice.
True story: about 35 years ago a urologist recommended an 'essential' operation on my uretha to increase the flow of pee, this operation being so awful to think about it that to this day my nuts clench in horror at the recollection of what he suggested doing (hint: it involved a catheter and a very sharp blade).
I didn't have it done. I still pee OK, flowrate unchanged.
Last edited by OFSO; 31st Jul 2013 at 10:50.