Many. patients have a polytrauma, injuries to other parts of the body in addition to the head and brain. Trauma victims often develop hypermetabolism or an increased metabolic rate, causing muscle wasting and the starvation of other tissues.
1 Normal: Less than 120 systolic and less than 80 diastolic. 2  Pre-hypertension: 120-139 systolic or 80-89 diastolic. 3  Hypertension: 140 or higher systolic or 90 or higher diastolic.  Hypertensive Crisis: higher than 180 or higher than 110 diastolic.
A Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) answered. Today, hypertension affects more than 65 million American adults. This means that about 1 out of every 3 people in the US suffers with hypertension. Hypertension knows no boundaries and affects babies, children, teenagers, young adults and the elderly. Both women and men are at risk for hypertension.