New guidelines published for managing high blood pressure

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/new-guidelines-published-for-managing-high-blood-pressure-201312186953

What the new guidelines fail to specify is what is “normal” blood pressure and what is high blood pressure. I’m going to stick with the current standard definitions:

Normal (meaning healthy) blood pressure: a systolic pressure under 120 and a diastolic pressure under 80.
Hypertension, or high blood pressure: a systolic pressure of 140 or higher and/or a diastolic pressure of 90 or higher.

What’s new

In a nutshell, here is what the new guidelines recommend:

among adults age 60 and older with high blood pressure, aim for a target blood pressure under 150/90.
among adults age 30 to 59 with high blood pressure, aim for a target blood pressure under 140/90
among adults with diabetes or chronic kidney disease, aim for a target blood pressure under 140/90.

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• 我說麽，新的guidelines老年人的血壓標準也是往上放鬆點的。 -薛成- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2015 postreply 11:56:56

• 關於高血壓前期(120-139/80-89),你怎麽看? -Lilac2003- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2015 postreply 12:07:21

• 這個時候血管一般還不是真正硬化，一般隻是痙攣，所以鍛煉，低鹽，放鬆，飲食改善就可以達到治療目的，不必吃藥。隻有 -薛成- ♂ (42 bytes) () 03/16/2015 postreply 12:11:12

• 這其實就是量變要引起質變的轉換期，真的要重視了。 -薛成- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/16/2015 postreply 12:12:55