Bloodwork

Blood pressure

The Wall Pressure

3 formulas on this site modulate this pathway.

This is a measurement, and the direction is only true within range: you want it out of the raised band, not as low as possible. Sustained elevation remodels the heart; too low is its own emergency. You want it in range: neither high enough to strain vessels nor low enough to starve tissue.

What this marker reads

Blood pressure — the force of blood against the vessel wall, a master cardiovascular gauge.

What a named body publishes

Each line below is the sentence the issuing body wrote, carried with its own identifier. Nothing here interprets your result — it states what was published, for whom, and by whom.

Systolic blood pressure

“NORMAL blood pressure is less than 120 mm Hg systolic AND less than 80 mm Hg diastolic.”

2025 AHA/ACC/AANP/AAPA/ABC/ACCP/ACPM/AGS/AMA/ASPC/NMA/PCNA/SGIM Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines · Circulation · 2025 DOI 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001356

“ELEVATED blood pressure is 120-129 mm Hg systolic AND less than 80 mm Hg diastolic.”

“STAGE 1 HYPERTENSION is 130-139 mm Hg systolic OR 80-89 mm Hg diastolic.”

“STAGE 2 HYPERTENSION is 140 mm Hg or higher systolic OR 90 mm Hg or higher diastolic.”

Diastolic blood pressure

“NORMAL blood pressure requires a diastolic pressure below 80 mm Hg together with a systolic pressure below 120 mm Hg.”

“ELEVATED blood pressure requires the diastolic pressure to remain below 80 mm Hg while systolic is 120-129 mm Hg; the two conditions are joined by AND.”

“STAGE 1 HYPERTENSION is met by a diastolic pressure of 80-89 mm Hg on its own, because the systolic and diastolic criteria for this stage are joined by OR.”

“STAGE 2 HYPERTENSION is met by a diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher on its own, because the systolic and diastolic criteria for this stage are joined by OR.”

Your laboratory reads your result against its own assay, and this page does not do that for it. What is above is what a named body published and for whom; the machinery this marker reads is set out on its pathway page, and the formulas witnessed on it are below.

The machinery behind it

What raises this marker and what it goes on to move — each edge carried with its own study — is set out in full on its pathway page: Blood pressure →

Formulas that modulate it

Each formula page names this pathway and carries the study behind its claim.

EKG Cardioprotective (Contractile Reserve) →

Interstellar Matcha (Ceremonial Grade) →

Pulsar (Vascular Pressure Regulation) →

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