The second number is called the diastolic pressure. For a young adult, an average healthy diastolic pressure is 60. When a person has high blood pressure, the arteries resist passage of the blood, and the heart must beats harder to keep the blood moving through the body. Therefore the pressure on the arteries increases, making the person vulnerable to strokes, heart attacks, and other serious problems. Now Dr. Myron Weinberger is a worldwide expert on hypertension.
Hypertension is the medical term for high blood pressure.
It is the number one reason that people see a doctor. It is also the leading cause of death from heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure. Dr. Weinberger has made important discoveries. He discovered that birth control pills cause some women to have high blood pressure. He discovered some special ways that the kidneys and the adrenal glands affect blood pressure.