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Now what is a healthy blood pressure? 120\/80, 130\/90, 140\/100?<\/p>\nNow what is a healthy blood pressure? 120\/80, 130\/90, 140\/100?<\/p>\n
The number has changed quite a bit over the last few decades. And a new study recently published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology<\/em> sheds yet more light on this issue.<\/p>\n In fact, it\u2019s a tiny rise in blood pressure that makes a big difference. However, it\u2019s not the rise that\u2019s important. It\u2019s the timing.<\/p>\n The study traced troublesome heart disease back to a tiny rise in blood pressure during young adulthood.<\/p>\n What the researchers found when they followed over 2,000 men and women for 30 years was a strong and convincing connection between heart attack and stroke later in life and small elevations in blood pressure in early adulthood.<\/p>\n Looking at various tests conducted throughout the study and heart scans at the end, the researchers found that participants who had prehypertension in their 20s and 30s- or slight elevation in blood pressure but not enough to be clinically diagnosed as hypertension \u2013 were more than twice as likely to have developed heart disease and stroke by the time they were in their 50s and 60s.<\/p>\n The short term effects of this tiny increase in blood pressure would not be noticeable or alarming. But now that the connection is made to that small but important increase, it becomes even more important for young adults to pay close attention to their health and take the best corrective action possible to optimize blood pressure readings.<\/p>\n