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February 24, 2021
Compared with men, women have a lower range of optimal blood pressure and are therefore at higher risk for CV disease and events at systolic levels typically believed to be “normal,” new research concludes.
“We ve been assuming up to this time that 120 is the number to worry about, and anything under 120 is totally fine and safe for both women and men,” said senior author Susan Cheng, MD (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA). “It turns out it s probably fine and safe for men, but not necessarily for women.”
In an analysis of participants from four large community-based cohorts, Cheng’s group found that women who had CV disease, stroke, MI, or heart failure (HF) consistently had BP levels that were 10 mm Hg lower to as much as 50 mm Hg lower than men who experienced the same events.
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By City News Service
Feb 15, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A study at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has found that women have a lower normal blood pressure range than men, the hospital said today.
Established blood pressure guidelines state that women and men have the same normal healthy range of blood pressure. But the study from the hospital s Smidt Heart Institute found that while 120 mmHg was the threshold of risk in men, 110 mmHg or lower was the threshold of risk in women. Our latest findings suggest that this one-size-fits-all approach to considering blood pressure may be detrimental to a woman s health, said Dr. Susan Cheng, director of the Institute for Research on Healthy Aging at the Smidt Heart Institute and senior author of the study. Based on our research results, we recommend that the medical community reassess blood pressure guidelines that do not account for sex differences.