High Blood Pressure
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EDelahanty
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140 over 90 is the threshold, so you're close but should be okay.
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2–19. Vascular system
a. Current or history of abnormalities of the arteries and blood vessels (447), including, but not limited to aneurysms
(442), atherosclerosis (440), or arteritis (446), do not meet the standard.
b. Current or history of hypertensive vascular disease (401) does not meet the standard. Elevated blood pressure
defined as the average of three consecutive sitting blood pressure measurements separated by at least 10 minutes,
diastolic greater than 90 mmHg or three consecutive systolic pressure measurements greater than 140 mmHg does not
meet the standard (796.2).
c. History of pulmonary (415) or systemic embolization (444) does not meet the standard.
d. Current or history of peripheral vascular disease (443), including, but not limited to diseases such as Raynaud’s
Disease (443.0) does not meet the standard.
e. Current or history of venous diseases, including but not limited to, recurrent thrombophlebitis (451), thrombophlebitis during the preceding year, or any evidence of venous incompetence, such as large or symptomatic varicose
veins, edema, or skin ulceration (454), does not meet the standard.
The stress of the physical & knowing that a lot is riding on the results of this physical probably contributes to your BP being a little on the high side. Our DS had his USNA Dodmerb physical a year ago and his blood pressure numbers were higher than he ever experienced with a sports physical.
jiller59
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DS had high pulse rate during his physical and received a remedial. He had never had a high pulse before, so we were surprised. All he needed to do was go to his own doctor who took a resting pulse and a pulse after a certain amount of activity. We received instructions on how and where the doctor had to report the results. The remedial was cleared in short order.
I took took my DoDMERB physical today, and my blood pressure was 140/80 because of my high level of nervousness. Is it within the accepted ranges, or is it likely I will receive a remedial? I have always had perfect blood pressure at my doctor's office.
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Technically I think you are ok as it has to be > 140 to cause a DQ. Did they take your BP more than once? If not, then you passed because they are supposed to check it a second time if it is greater than 140/90.
They did take it more than once. The nurse said, "ahh yes! 140, that'll just do it for them," but I wanted to be sure.
I think you are good to go! Good luck with the rest of your application!
