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<blockquote data-quote="tRidiot" data-source="post: 2953239" data-attributes="member: 9374"><p>They have been pushing much lower blood pressure goals in recent years. Used to be, when I was a medic, they taught us the top number was "normal" at 100+(age) up to 150. Nowadays, the goals are MUCH lower, under 130 ideally, even 120. We've found after monitoring it for years that chronic, low-grade hypertension that is uncontrolled (think 140 or so) leads to more atherosclerosis ("hardening of the arteries") and thickening of the heart muscle which ends up as diastolic congestive heart failure. Not a fun condition to have. Strokes are bad news, yes, but even seemingly benign low-grade hypertension has serious long-term consequences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tRidiot, post: 2953239, member: 9374"] They have been pushing much lower blood pressure goals in recent years. Used to be, when I was a medic, they taught us the top number was "normal" at 100+(age) up to 150. Nowadays, the goals are MUCH lower, under 130 ideally, even 120. We've found after monitoring it for years that chronic, low-grade hypertension that is uncontrolled (think 140 or so) leads to more atherosclerosis ("hardening of the arteries") and thickening of the heart muscle which ends up as diastolic congestive heart failure. Not a fun condition to have. Strokes are bad news, yes, but even seemingly benign low-grade hypertension has serious long-term consequences. [/QUOTE]
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