![]() ![]() Investigators also found that women had a lower blood pressure threshold than men for risk of each specific cardiovascular disease type, including heart attack, heart failure, and stroke. Systolic blood pressure levels that were higher than these thresholds were associated with risk for developing any type of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack, heart failure and strokes. In doing so, the research team identified that while 120 mmHg was the threshold of risk in men, 110 mmHg or lower was the threshold of risk in women. In their newest study, Cheng and her research team examined blood pressure measurements conducted across four community-based cohort studies, comprising more than 27,000 participants, 54% of whom were women. Persistent elevations above this limit amount to hypertension–which is well known as the key risk factor for common cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attack, heart failure, and stroke. The second number is the diastolic pressure, the blood pressure against the artery walls between heartbeats.įor years, 120 mmHg has been considered the normal upper limit for systolic blood pressure in adults. The first number in a blood pressure reading is called the systolic pressure and measures the force of the blood against the artery walls as your heart beats. “Based on our research results, we recommend that the medical community reassess blood pressure guidelines that do not account for sex differences.” “Our latest findings suggest that this one-size-fits-all approach to considering blood pressure may be detrimental to a woman’s health,” said Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc, associate professor of Cardiology and director of the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging in the Department of Cardiology at the Smidt Heart Institute and senior author of the study. But the new research shows there are differences in normal blood pressure between the sexes. ![]() Ĭurrently, established blood pressure guidelines state that women and men have the same normal healthy range of blood pressure. The findings were published today in the peer-reviewed journal Circulation. A new study from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows that women have a lower “normal” blood pressure range compared to men. ![]()
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