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What causes high systolic pressure but low diastolic pressure?

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Systolic 161, diastolic 71
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replied May 14th, 2012
The systolic blood pressure is elevated. But that leaves many questions, including how many pressures were taken, what was the technique used to take the pressure, how much do you weigh, how old are you, what is your gender, what is the family history, who took the blood pressure, etc etc.
An isolated blood pressure is not sufficient to make a diagnosis.


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