New Insights on Hypertension and Coronary Heart Disease 1999.4.13

New Insights on Hypertension and Coronary Heart Disease 1999.4.13

Previously, the threshold for hypertension was considered to be a systolic pressure of 140 mmHg and a diastolic pressure of 90 mmHg. However, according to the "Chinese Internal Medicine Journal" (Issue 3, 1999), when systolic pressure reaches 139 mmHg and diastolic pressure reaches 82.6 mmHg, attention should be paid. Obesity is the underlying cause of hypertension, while diet and emotional state are the prerequisites for its development. Earlier understandings of hypertension focused mainly on lipid levels, blood viscosity, and persistently elevated diastolic pressure. Now, however, it is believed that in addition to lipid levels, blood glucose, blood viscosity, and diastolic pressure, elevated systolic pressure is also very important. Clinically speaking, regardless of gender or age, systolic pressure should be regarded as reaching 139 mmHg as the critical threshold. Of course, another important factor is the presence of complications affecting target organs such as the heart, brain, kidneys, retina, and peripheral vessels.