If doctors start using a lower blood pressure number to decide when it's too high, a lot more young Asian guys with no symptoms would be told they have high blood pressure — jumping from 1 in 20 to more than 1 in 4.

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Blood Pressure and Hypertension in Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Nationwide Screening Program

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2025 Aug

The study found that very few young Asian men had high blood pressure, even when using the lower cutoff. The claim says switching the threshold would make many more cases, but the study shows that wouldn’t happen because so few people are near that level.

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Blood Pressure and Hypertension in Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Nationwide Screening Program

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DOI: 10.1111/jch.70075

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