Blood pressure targets of 140/90 mmHg insufficient, warns cardiologist

Hypertension contributes to increased mortality and morbidity from cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases affecting millions globally.

Each year on May 17th, the world is invited to reckon with a disease that harms in silence — hypertension, the invisible architect of stroke, heart failure, and premature death. In Portugal, where more than four in ten adults carry this condition, cardiologist Paulo Dinis is challenging the medical consensus: the threshold of 140/90mmHg that European guidelines treat as the boundary of danger is, he argues, already too late. The evidence now points toward 120/70mmHg as the truer frontier of risk, and the distance between those two numbers is measured not in mercury, but in lives.

Blood pressure targets of 140/90 mmHg insufficient, warns cardiologist

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