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Prehypertension Increases Cardiovascular
Risk
(NY, Reuters Health, 2/22/06)
Dr. Abhijit V. Kshirsagar of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and team, examined the relationship
between having high-normal blood pressure (prehypertension)
and developing cardiovascular disease in nearly 9,000
participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.
In the eleven and a half year follow-up, the investigators
found that subjects who initially had pressure readings in the
range of 120/80 to 139/89 mm Hg had two and a half times the
risk of developing cardiovascular problems as those with
optimal blood pressure.
(The American Journal of Medicine,
February 2006) |
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