High Systolic Blood Pressure And An Increased Risk For Heart Disease

High Systolic Blood Pressure And An Increased Risk For Heart Disease.
Young and middle-aged adults with huge systolic blood compression - the meridian number in the blood pressure reading - may have an increased risk for heart disease, a experimental study suggests. "High blood pressure becomes increasingly common with age. However, it does surface in younger adults, and we are seeing early onset more often recently as a result of the corpulence epidemic," said study senior author Dr Donald Lloyd-Jones. He is a professor of epidemiology and cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Earlier, small-scale studies have suggested that unique systolic high blood pressure might be harmless in younger adults, or the issue of temporary nervousness at the doctor's office, Lloyd-Jones said. But this 30-year study suggests - but does not validate - that isolated systolic high blood pressure in young adulthood (average adulthood 34) is a predictor of dying from heart problems 30 years down the road. "Doctors should not cut isolated systolic high blood pressure in younger adults, since it audibly has implications for their future health," Lloyd-Jones said.

For the study, Lloyd-Jones and colleagues followed more than 27000 adults, ages 18 to 49, enrolled in the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry Study. Women with euphoric systolic intimidation were found to have a 55 percent higher risk of sinking from heart disease than women with normal blood pressure. For men, the difference was 23 percent. The readings to follow for: systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg or more and diastolic power (the bottom number) of less than 90 mm Hg.