What's your number? Know your vital health stats

Normal is considered 120/80 or less. High blood pressure is considered when it starts to rise to the 130/80 and higher level. It’s considered a hypertension (high blood pressure) crisis when it reaches 180/120.

Hypertension can increase one’s risk of heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, heart failure, vascular diseases and cognitive issues, including dementia.

Physicians consider it low blood pressure (hypotension) when it reads 90/60 and lower, and it can cause dizziness, weakness, faintness and increases the risk for falls. If it becomes extreme enough, low blood pressure can deprive the body of adequate oxygen, damaging the heart and brain.

For adults, a normal, resting heart rate is between 60 to 100 beats per minutes.

Tachycardia — a condition when the heart rate is more than 100 beats per minute — increases the risk of disrupting normal heart function, potentially leading to heart failure, strokes and sudden cardiac arrest, possibly death.

Bradycardia, when the heart rate is too low — under 60 beats per minute — can result in heart failure, fainting, chest pain and high and low blood pressure.

For seniors, the National Institutes of Health suggest a BMI of 25 to 27. For adults, 18 to 25 is considered normal (18 and below is underweight, 25 to 30 is overweight, and 30 and above is considered obese).

Being overweight with a high BMI can result in cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure and diabetes.

A low BMI and potentially being malnourished can result in a compromised immune system, respiratory disease, digestive diseases and osteoporosis.

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