It's time to buy a new BP monitor.
Or the patient is dead
They look at the diastolic (smaller number) when checking for high blood pressure.
The larger of the two numbers in a blood pressure reading is the "systolic" reading. The lower number is the "diastolic." The systolic reading measures how hard the heart pumps when it contracts; whereas the diastolic reads the pressure when the heart relaxes.
Diastolic is associated with blood pressure. It's the measurement of pressure in the artery when your heart is at rest. Dystolic is a common misspelling.
The upper reading is the systolic blood pressure while the lower reading is the diastolic blood pressure. Systole is the contraction of the heart while diastole is the relaxation of the heart.
Systolic (the higher number) is a reading of the pressure in your blood vessels when your heart is beating at its maximum strength. Diastolic (the lower number) tells you what the pressure is in your blood vessels when your heart is at rest.
A correct blood pressure reading consists of 2 index numbers, namely a systolic, and a diastolic number. Your diastolic number(s) seem pretty low, especially for a systolic of 108, and a bad reading is suspected.
Obviously below sixty, but it is not possible to gauge diastolic pressure by palpation.
This would be within the normal range for an adult diastolic resting blood pressure.
Diastolic
The bottom number is diastolic. A diastolic of 60 or lower is a sign of hypotension. However, some people do not have hypotensive symptoms.
your diastolic bp, briefly, is your heart intake bp, the lower number, which should be +- 80.
The systolic number is always higher than the diastolic number. 120 or lower for systolic number and 80 or lower for diastolic is in normal range. If diastolic is high, say 95 after running - is ita high? and if what should one do?