Absolutely I do. My concern is my diastolic number. Over time it has been high compared to what is normal - not always necessarily hypertension high but enough to cause me some concern. I am on medication to help, but in general most medication seems to focus on systolic numbers.
You might want to look up the graphs. It’s all statistical.
The elevation of risk for a measurement that is slightly high is also very slightly high. If you’re walking around with 150 over 100, that doesn’t mean you die tomorrow. That effect has to accumulate over a significant period of time.
If it’s brief there’s just not much risk.
There are calculators online for cardiovascular events which means heart attack or stroke. All the risk factors are on there and the conclusion is some increased percentage over the perfect body at your particular age.T
Docs don’t usually involve themselves with discretion. If the accepted recommendation is x in response to y, then you are going to hear x from them. And that’s generally the way you would want it. They’re all operating from the same instruction manual. The instruction manual changes only when research accumulates to compel it.