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Yong Loo Lin
School of Medicine

New standard for high blood pressure in US

Published: 17 Nov 2017

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Professor Tan Huay Cheem at the Department of Medicine, NUS Medicine, and Director at the National University Health Centre, Singapore, responded to the recent new US cut-off standard on high blood pressure set by the American Heart Association (AHA).

Prof Tan shared that the stricter rate recommendation from 140/90 to 130/80 was based on solid evidence, and there is no reason to reject it.

If Singapore adopts this new recommendation, one-third of the population will be grouped into having high blood pressure.

“We should still treat patients with stage 1 hypertension with lifestyle changes and start drug treatment only if he has multiple other risk factors (for example, diabetes mellitus, etc),” he said.

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