What Should Your Blood Pressure Actually Be?

Two people walked into a clinic this month with almost exactly the same blood-pressure reading. And for one of them it was good news. For the other, it was the reason she's in a cast. The first is a man in his mid-forties. His monitor says 118 over 76 — and he's frightened. His dad had a heart attack at fifty, he's been reading online that anything creeping toward 120 is a warning sign, and he's…