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What's more important diastolic or systolic pressure?
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Both, actually: In actuality, they're both important for their own reasons. The systolic pressure should be lower than 120 and the diastolic lower than 80 for optimal health and risk reduction (i.e. Heart disease and stroke).
Answered 7/21/2014
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