Your blood pressure is showing hypertensive crisis
The reading you entered shows that your blood pressure is at the level of hypertensive crisis.
This means that your blood pressure is dangerously high and could cause you future health problems.
The advice to you based on your reading is that you require an urgent (same day) assessment at your surgery, Walk in Centre or A&E department.
If you received a blood pressure check from one of the partner organisations in Lancashire and South Cumbria, you will have received an information booklet from the British Heart Foundation.
Read more about blood pressure, cholesterol, atrial fibrillation and lifestyle choices.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, rarely has noticeable symptoms. But, if untreated, it increases your risk of developing serious health problems such as heart attacks and strokes.
Cholesterol is a fatty substance found in your blood. If you have too much cholesterol in your blood, it can increase your risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke.
When the heart beats normally, its muscular walls contract (tighten and squeeze) to force blood out and around the body. They then relax, so the heart can fill with blood again.