A new study found that maintaining normal blood pressure over long term is the key to a healthy heart.
The study, published in the Chinese Medical Journal noted how hypertension was a factor in over 2.5 million deaths in China alone with 95.7 percent due to cardiovascular disease (CVD).
In this paper, Dr Jing Liu, expert in the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases at the Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung, and Blood Vessel Diseases, along with a team of researchers, explored exactly how much hypertension puts a person at significant risk of CVD.
Dr Liu said: “Our findings show that long-term exposure to high blood pressure may increase your risk of cardiovascular disease, although your current blood pressure level is lower than the diagnostic criterion of hypertension.