title: My diastolic blood pressure reading consistently registers 65 to 75, but my systolic registers 125 to 135.  My doctor says that because that diastolic is well controlled (I'm 72 and take amlodipine), that there's no need to try to lower the systolic.  What do you think?
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017311:Amlodipine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D017311:Amlodipine