A waist to hips ratio higher than 0.80 for women and 0.95 for men indicates excess intra-abdominal fat, which will lead to increased disease probabilities. As your height and Body Mass Index are known, your ideal weight range is simply computed. You might like to use this as a target for your training. Results are expressed as either depressed, normal or elevated. Systolic pressure is the force that is exerted on the walls of your arteries as your heart beats and pumps the blood.
Diastolic pressure is the pressure on the artery wall at the relaxed state between each heart beat.
The parameters for the comments are based on your sex and age and are representative of a healthy person. Blood pressure results vary under many circumstances, such as if you smoke, are anxious or nervous, your race, family history, the temperature, your level of fitness and simply how you are feeling at the time of the readings. A high and constant level of elevated blood pressure strains the heart and arteries and can give cause for concern. This is sometimes called hypertension, and is an accelerating factor in heart disease and gives an increased risk of a heart attack or stroke when you are older. Weight reduction, regular exercise, reduction of stress and giving up smoking may be all that is needed to address this.