<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.Hi, I just came back from my emergency dept. because i wasnt feeling right, they took my vitals and my blood pressure read 17898, they said it was a little high, and that was it.. is there anything i should do and is this really high? Im a 27 year old female and my mother just suffered a heart attack on thursday  <response>: Hello and thank you for using Chat Doctor. I carefully read your question and I understand your concern. I will try to explain and give you my opinion. We talk about hypertension if we have mean values that exceeds 14090 mmHg. It is normal to have higher blood pressure values after a physical or an emotional stress, so it is important to judge on mean day and night values. Hypertension is divided in two groups: essential or idiopathic hypertension without an identifiable cause and secondary hypertension, usually in young ages, meaning that is a secondary cause of it. This cause might be a renal disease, an endocrine problem, a cardiovascular pathology. As you explain, your mother had a heart attach before. This might have caused a little stress on you and this high values might be normal. The fact that it is a family history with cardiovascular problem should make us much alert with you even your young age. If I was your treating doctor I will recommend a full check up with blood test analyze, an electrocardiogram, echocardiography and a pressure holder monitoring to check your mean values. Only after this we can be sure if is just a stressed period or something else. Hope I was helpful. Best regards. 