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My BP Is 280, Is This Bad ?
i am 15 years old and yesterday i had to take a urine sample because my last blood work came back messed up or something and today after school my mom called me and told me that my blood pressure was dangerously high it was 282 how bad is this or is she just being a over protective mom normally after sports i get light headed and i play basketball football and baseball for my school but i haven't been feeling that great lately and i have been feeling pretty week am i coming down with something or is this because of my blood pressure
Tue, 15 Dec 2009
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mohan's
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That's horrible. You've gotta see the chart in the website. It only goes to 230 as "Very Severe stage 4"
It'll contribute to weakening really fast. If the reading's right, you could have a stroke and die....
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/medicine/blood-pressure.htm
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