Panasonic improves blood pressure assessment
Dear customer, congratulation on the purchase of this Panasonic blood pressure monitor.
Since 1992, Panasonic has been providing blood pressure measuring devices to our
customers in Europe. The product you have purchased has passed our strict quality
control, and shall help you manage your daily blood pressure.
We wish you all the best for your health.
Thanks to modern medical technology measuring blood pressure has now become
uncomplicated. The user-friendliness makes measuring a lot easier, but very often a
mistake can occur when assessing the measured values. In the majority of cases it is not the
whole blood pressure picture that is taken into account but only a single measurement. The
result of this is that more than 70 % of all hypertension sufferers are insufficiently treated or
not treated at all (Source: World Health Organisation (WHO)).
Now Panasonic revolutionizes the treatment of high blood pressure.
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SYS
DIA
Blood pressure is not a fixed parameter!
The blood pressure fluctuations of this example of a day profile show why a single value is
not suitable for diagnosis and therapy.
For people with high blood pressure a fluctuation of up to 50 mmHg within the course
of a day can occur.
Points of interest and information concerning blood
pressure and high blood pressure
The treatment of high blood pressure is one of the most successful forms of treatment in
modern medicine. This applies not only when preventing complications due to high blood
pressure, but also with regard to treating damage following a stroke or heart attack.
Recent studies have proven beyond all doubt that:
1. high blood pressure can be successfully lowered in patients of every age and
2. blood pressure should be stabilized at a low level.
The findings of major recent studies have made it necessary to adjust the formerly
acceptable limits (the World Health Organization (WHO), 1999). In other words, the
traditional limit of 160/95 mmHg as the borderline between normal and high blood pressure
has now been reduced. Consequently, the normal values have been “lowered” by WHO, the
German Hypertension Society and the American Hypertension Committee.
Upper value (SYS.) 140 mmHg
Lower value (DIA.) 90 mmHg
Blood pressure exceeding both or either of
these limits is considered hypertension.
The values should be confirmed by
repeated measurements.
A pathologically high blood pressure is now
defined as follows:
Systolic value of 140 mmHg or more and/or
a diastolic value of 90 mmHg or more–
provided that these values are repeatedly
obtained under standard conditions, i.e. at
rest (measured at three different times on
two different days).
This definition applies regardless of age. What formerly constituted a borderline area with
systolic values between 140 and 159 mmHg and diastolic values between 90 and 94 mmHg
is no longer considered to be a “grey area”, but is quite clearly classed as high blood
pressure. This consequently means that medical treatment is required for blood pressure
values in excess of 140/90 mmHg.
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