What should your target Blood Pressure be?

Dr. Kanagarayagam, there's a lot of people with high blood pressure. What should you aim your blood pressure to be? So, the UK, the current guidelines in the UK suggest the average blood pressure over a 24-hour period should be under 135 over 85. And that's really for the current level of blood pressure control. There are guidelines that are being adopted in the US that are slightly lower, slightly lower target rates. And it varies slightly also on age. you know if you're over a certain age then perhaps we're a bit more lenient in terms of the targets for blood pressure control but you know we tend to a number that's over a 24-hour period or over a you know week-long monitoring where you're measuring your blood pressure twice in the morning and twice at night we tend to say a blood pressure of under 135 over 85 is a reasonable target.