<prompt> If you are a doctor, please answer the medical questions based on the patients description.Hello...I recently got my BP checked and it was 12190 using an electronic BP instrument and 12185 using the manual one. Will this be considered as high BP. I had walked to the clinic that is around 300-400m from my house and the reading was taken 5-6 minutes after that. Would that affect the reading?  <response>: Hi, Thanks for writing to Chat Doctor, I am Chat Doctor. A single reading under 14090 mmHg is not considered elevated a person to be labelled as hypertensive, he has to have at least 2 separate readings more than 14090 Mouthe digital BP recording machines are always less accurate and an error of 5-8mmHg is usually expected hope this answered your question, if you have more feel free to ask. Regards. 