Peter Attia· MD
for things like a stroke you can start showing an increased risk from 120 over 80 to 140 over 90.
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for things like a stroke you can start showing an increased risk from 120 over 80 to 140 over 90.
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epidemiologic studies showed that even a blood pressure of like 140 over 90 conferred increased risk it just was much less than the 170. so at 170 it just takes off it's almost the line goes up vertically but between 140 and 160 there's still in stepwise increased risk but it's just a kind of a more gradual risk