Isolated Diastolic Hypertension

#1

Hi All,

I am currently sitting at a Health Informatics Conference. Informatics being my speciality, rather the Health half, but either way.

One thing I love about these conferences is playing with all the cool medtech that’s on display here while everyone else is in the talks.

I hooked myself up to a machine that measures five biometrics (weight, height, blood pressure, resting heart rate and bioimpedance) and asks about 8 questions, then gives you some advice.

My blood pressure came out as 108/90. In other words, my systolic is perfect, dead centre of the normal range. But my diastolic is high.

I’ve never had this before. I’ve always been around 110-120/75-80.

I’m due to see my doctor in 3 weeks, but until then, I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about a Keto(ish) diet, raising just the diastolic pressure.

Thanks,

Ken.

(Rob) #2

I don’t know the answer but BP is notoriously variable for a plethora of reasons - stress, recent meal, time of day, recent activity, other health issue (e.g. infection), etc.

If you really care, get a home tester (they are cheap and good) but TBH it would probably be opening a can of worms since you would just see how variable BP is and waste a ton of time trying to explain things that don’t need explaining.

I wouldn’t sweat it or do one more test in a more familiar environment to confirm. I would bet there is nothing actually going on at all… :thinking:

#3

Thanks. Capnbob. Not too concerned at the moment as x/90 is only just borderline, and I’ve seen some studies saying that there is no correlation between isolated diastolic hypertension and rates of myocardial infarction, despite that being a long held belief.

I have done more searching and reading on this forum, and while it seems some people’s blood pressure has increased on Keto, my gut feel seems to be that there is no direct link that’s strong enough to be concerned right now.

(Sarah ) #4

buy your self a BP cuff and take your BP a few times a day for at least a week before you even think about trying to draw any conclusions about your personal n of 1.