Look after your heart by lowering your blood pressure this summerMany of us have become obsessed with monitoring our daily step counts and sleep scores, but we rarely give the same amount of attention to our blood pressure. “It’s important to keep an eye on your blood pressure because of the effects high blood pressure can have on the vascular system. “Blood pressure also naturally increases with age, but obviously some people have higher blood pressure than others even though they’re the same age. “This is when you wear a blood pressure cuff for 24 hours and it automatically takes your blood pressure every half an hour or every hour,” explains Lowe. “135/85 mmHg is the new marker that we try and keep blood pressure below when we’re treating patients with high blood pressure,” says Lowe.