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High blood pressure in young people
Blood pressure targets for young adults: are we being too stringent?
BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3910 (Published 09 October 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;371:m3910
- Divyani Garg, assistant professor1,
- Ayush Agarwal, assistant professor2
- 1Department of Neurology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi 110001, India
- 2Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
- divyanig{at}gmail.com
Hypertension is a harbinger of a huge cardiovascular disease burden globally, with an estimated one in three adults in low and middle income countries having hypertension, previously defined as blood pressure ≥140/90 mm Hg.1 The burden is probably greater, given the current definition of ≥130/80 mm Hg.2
Luo and colleagues pooled data from 17 observational studies of more than 4.5 million young adults (18-45 years), with …
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