Whats the Best Blood Pressure for Older Adults?

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As you get older, your blood pressure will naturally change because your arteries start to change. In this video, you're going to learn what's the best blood pressure for older adults.

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What the New Blood Pressure Guidelines — & Research — Mean For Older Adults

Reading the new blood pressure guidelines

[Finnador]

I've lived with BP around 145/90 since the 1970's; some people run higher. I never fell victim to the high pressure sales tactics from my doctor to 'get on the crap'; and I've outlived my counterparts who were treated aggressively.

[martinparkes]

More older people

Over 65 ignore your blood pressure if you are feeling well and getting regular exercise stop looking for problems stay happy and healthy

[jackwachtel-scott]

The lower you set the "ideal levels" the more drugs you sell.
The notion that the levels should be the same irrespective of age totally ignores hardening of the arteries that occurs in all people as they age.
How about a study conducted and funded other than by a pharmaceutical company!

[howardcurtis]

Being 79 with high BP, I am intereste in this topic. I was taking medications for BP and Cholesterol, but they all seemed to give me terrible side effects. Then I saw a Youtube "60 Minutes" video about a Leisure World study of seniors and their health. They found that seniors with high blood pressure and cholesterol suffered less dementia. That makes me wonder if somehow the added blood pressure or cholesterol is good for the aging brain, or if the people who got dementia got it because it was a hidden side-effect of the pharmaceutical prescriptions? And the people who didn't take the meds actually fared better? Also, i wonder who funded the "SPRINT" study? If the funding came from someone who stands to gain monetarily from the results that were published, I'd be suspicious.

[nonewherelistens]

108/64, no medications, age 76. 5'10", 160 lbs. Whole food plant dominant diet, pickle ball 3X per week, extensive gardening and outdoor recreation in summer. You are the best manager of your own health if you pay attention to the latest in nutrition and exercise science.

[AUSTIN]

Mine has now gone to 110/75 after giving up my Amlodipine I was taking for 40 years. It was 140/85 Doctor not happy I gave them up. But I am much better for it in my general wellbeing, I am 80 years of age, so I want quality of life.

[alisontunny]

My doctor was going to give me stronger medication if my blood pressure remained 194/9. So I went home and figured what had changed in my life. Our bodies are intelligent adapters especially to stress. I had no worries but I had developed a habit of drinking multiple cups of instant coffee during the day. So I’m cut out the caffeine and switched to decaffeinated coffee and tea infusions. My blood pressure returned to 120/80 by the next weeks trip to the Doctor. Please look at what you’re eating, drinking, and what stress you could remove from your life before accepting stronger medication!

[arlynewollen]

Im 78. Female New Yorker. No health issues. My doctor told me to monitor my bp while i stop meds for 1 month. As long as i dont go above 150/90, on the average, i can stop taking my bp meds already. Great doctor! I'm now off meds and continue to monitor my bp. How many doctors di that?

[jcolumbiap]

When my father got a at home blood tester everything changed. I noticed that different situations change blood pressure.
For me going to a doctor was like going to an execution. My blood pressure would shift from 102/64 at home to 180/90 at the doctors.
This really needs to be made public.
One smart place for testing blood pressure is the Osteopathic Doctors. They had a race here in Tulsa and would do a persons blood pressure before and after a 8k race. Having the realization that stress affects blood pressure is something to remember in spite of what the doctor tells you at the doctors office. Get your own blood pressure tester.

[nikonrulz]

I totally agree with you sir. There is so much panic over blood pressure.

[nickbamber]

Ah I get it. Lower blood pressure criteria would mean more people put onto medication. More money!

[Demetrenos]

Got prescribed diuretics for my high blood pressure which caused me constipation and hemorrhoids. Stopped the diuretics and doing instead one hand squeezing and taking Natto. Now my blood pressure is a few points lower than when I was taking diuretics.

[MrRavenski]

I always had high blood pressure. Typically 140-70 or more (diastolic never went over 80). I was early 40s when I first became aware of my high BP but i was never on medication, i was otherwise healthy, good diet, blood sugar in normal range, exercised a lot (at least 1/2 hr of swimming or cycling or running daily, sometimes all 3 in a day as well as doing calisthenics and outdoorish hobbies like Mountaineering in summer and cross country skiing in winter) . I am 73 now and still basically the same in terms of BP, BS, still exercise a lot, 15% body fat (You can see what I look like on my YouTube channel alainsarries) and still no medication of any kind. How many people can say that at 73 yo? So what is my point, my point is that despite having High BP, I have always been a healthy individual. People and doctors panic over PB over 140, but one should remember that doing intense exercise BP might go up to 200 for systolic so in this context 140 is not a disaster with danger of imminent death, your body will tolerate a much higher BP at least for a short while! . True, blood pressure guidelines are a useful tool for the general population but also true also is that we are all individuals and there are no guide lines that perfectly fit all .

[capitalismblows]

Four months ago I stopped all medications and started a mostly Keto diet. My BP is now 97 over 63 and I get a little more energy every day. At almost 79 I feel great. I am glad I stopped covid shots at 2.

[dagmarvandoren]

Bloodpressure changes all the time. Period

[XaqNautilus]

The American Heart Association is wholly funded by industry players. The new guidelines are in place to sell more blood pressure medications and keep more people on them longer/forever. The American Academy of Family Physicians even refuted the AHA and upheld that 140/90 should stay as the line for medication. The Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation adopted the AHA's overly strict guidelines, as I'm sure other foreign countries have as industry lobbying goes a long, long way.
I have to choose to go off my blood pressure meds on my own if I want to get off them. My doctor has already told be she wants to see my blood pressure at 115/75, which I find ridiculous.

[drdillipsatapathy]

Actually it should be 140 /90 normal but bp medicine manufacturer set all sorts of fears.

[motebike]

Just because the consensus has always been that 120/80 is an 'ideal' blood pressure, it does not follow that anyone 65 or over, should have the same numbers. It's the natural age process where our system adjusts as we age. Therefore, having around 135/80, would be the new normal for older folks.

[inglbrute]

I learned an interesting thing the other day. In Europe the "normal" range is up to 140/90, they call this "high normal". I remember just a few years ago they were trying to tell everyone in the US that if you are over 120/80 (from the previous 130/**) you need a perscription. They have many many fewer people on prescriptions overall and many of those countries have a higher life expectancy. In fact, the US is the most medicated country in the world, by far, but rank 44th in life expectancy. And we are ranked 1st in prescription medications and vaccinations. We also pay substantially more for the exact same drugs as other countries do.

[daniellehelliker]

for many years I was on Lisinopril. I was obliged to stop because of side effect (big throat problem). Followed by Losartan for quite sometimes until side effect strike again. I Just stop taking them for constant diarrhea. blood pressure 150/80. the diastolic is always 80 or below. I have no other problem and it is the only medication I take. I am 81.