For Chinese Uyghur adults, tracking how high their top blood pressure number is over time helps predict heart problems better than other blood pressure measures.

For Uyghur adults in China, the longer and higher their blood pressure adds up over time, the greater their chance of getting heart disease — every certain amount of buildup raises the risk by about a third.

For people in rural China, tracking blood pressure over time gives a better warning about future heart problems than just one early reading—and the more your average pressure adds up over the years, the higher your risk.

For Chinese Uyghur adults, the longer and higher their blood pressure stays over time, the greater their chance of having a heart attack or stroke—and there’s no safe lower limit where the risk stops going up.

For Chinese Uyghur adults, the more their blood pressure pulses go up over time, the higher their chance of heart problems — even more than regular blood pressure readings suggest.

For people living in rural China, having higher average diastolic blood pressure over time is linked to a higher chance of heart disease — even if you already account for their starting blood pressure and other health factors.