(1)Blood pressure measurement of 120 over 80 is considere normal, but if the pressure is consistantly 140 over 90 or hogher, then many doctor giagose that as hypertension.

  (2)Hypertension can lead to stroke, heard disease, and heard attack. Studies in the past have concluded that women are less prone to high blood pressure than men, but newer findings show that as a woman gets older, her risk of hypertension becomes the same as that of a man.

 (3)Doctors quantify just how much a woman could lower her risk of developing high blood pressure by follow combination of low risk lifestyle factors: exercice about thirty minuses a day, maintain a normal body weight by eating healthy diet, high-end fruits and vegetables and less red meat, keep alcohol consumption low,stay away from non-prescriptions pain reliefes, and take supplements to prevent anemia.