@MarkR … good job on the consistency with the BP measurement. In fact it’s normal to have fluctuations over the course of the day…or over the course of a minute, come to that. I usually do 3 readings at 30 second or so intervals and decide that the middle of the 3 is my reading for the day. I began this strategy back when I started doing BP readings in my office. Primarily because patients would reassure me that with a reading of something like 150/95, “it’s only White Coat Hypertension”…and I’d give a similar response to the one upstream…i.e. there’s no such thing in “health” as only WCH, any more than prediabetes, or a bit pregnant. Every once in a while, if one of may staff did a measurement after the appointment, it would be in striking distance of normal so could be something it’s reasonable to brush of as “stress” but I could never understand why folk were so cavalier. Then again, my mum’s first inkling of high BP was a stroke, so there is that as something to concentrate the mind.
What’s your CAC score, BTW? That might be a better indicator of “at risk for heart disease” than your BP readings. Or, come to that, a documented family history. This is the one thing I (and my healthcare providers, I guess) did not give enough weight to until that elevated CAC score that I’ve mentioned repeatedly for the past 3 plus years.