Blood pressure reading What this means What you need to do Less than 120 over 80 Your blood pressure Follow a healthy lifestyle is normal and healthy to keep your blood pressure

at this level Between 121 over 81 Your blood pressure Make healthy changes and 139 over 89 is a little higher than to your lifestyle it should be, and you should try to lower it 140 over 90,

You have high Change your lifestyle – or higher (over a blood pressure see your

Heart failure does not mean the heart has stopped working. Rather, it means that the heart’s pumping power is weaker than normal. With heart failure,

blood moves through the heart and body at a slower rate, and pressure in the heart increases. As a result, the heart cannot pump enough oxygen and

nutrients to meet the body’s needs. The chambers of the heart may respond by stretching to hold more blood to pump through the body or by becoming stiff and

thickened. This helps to keep the blood moving, but the heart muscle walls may eventually weaken and become unable to pump as efficiently.

As a result, the kidneys may respond by causing the body to retain fluid (water) and salt. If fluid builds up in the arms, legs, ankles, feet, lungs, or

other organs, the body becomes congested, and congestive heart failure is the term used to describe the condition.