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BLOOD PRESSURE CATEGORIES

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BLOOD PRESSURE CATEGORIES

the six AHA categories · 2025 guideline · the higher of the two readings decides

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

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Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
body and care · everyone · reference · study

The ranges are verbatim from the American Heart Association table in “Understanding Blood Pressure Readings” (heart.org, per the 2025 AHA/ACC guideline; read 08.2026). These are guideline categories, not a diagnosis: only a clinician can confirm your blood pressure and tell you what to do about it.

ABOVE 180/120 THE NUMBERS STOP DECIDING

The top two rows of the table carry identical numbers, and that is not a misprint. Above 180 and/or above 120 the same pair of readings can be two different conditions, and what separates them is not the monitor but how you feel: with no symptoms it is severe hypertension and a call to your own clinician, with any of the seven listed symptoms it is an emergency and a call to 911.

This is new as of 2025: the AHA/ACC guideline split the former “hypertensive crisis” into these two states and retired the term “hypertensive urgency”. An older chart on the wall does not know this distinction yet.

On the sheet

  • The ranges are verbatim from the American Heart Association table in “Understanding Blood Pressure Readings” (heart.org, per the 2025 AHA/ACC guideline; read 08.2026). These are guideline categories, not a diagnosis: only a clinician can confirm your blood pressure and tell you what to do about it.
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 7 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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