The answer for those advancing in years is of course to have, hand in hand with a base line colonoscopy, an angiogram. This one off and walk in procedure will enable your cardiologist to determine the extent of any heart disease that might be present. This result, coupled with that of a twenty four hour ambulatory blood pressure survey, will enable a quite precise diagnosis to be made and long term medication prescribed, as applicable, to either raise or lower the blood pressure. It's not just the spot readings that matter. The cycle is important as well. 135/85 seems to be the preferred target figure these days with, increasingly, the blood pressure being taken immediately on walk in not after a nice long rest on the examination couch.
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