Which is worse for blood pressure readings ?

Question

If blood pressure reading is more than 40pts differeny in systolic and diastolic, is it worse to be less or more ? As an example, would it be worse to have a reading of 150/140 or 160/110 ?

Answer 1

any diastolic above 100 is bad news

Answer 2

probably higher

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Answer 3

The former would be considerably worse, not to mention really weird.

Just as an aside, mean arterial pressure can be estimated as twice the systolic+diastolic/3, so even using that, which underestimates how much worse the diastolic elevation is, 150/140 averages to about 147 and 160/110 to about 143.