Young Asian guys who are overweight or obese are way more likely to have high blood pressure, even if they feel fine — especially if their BMI is 27.5 or higher, where the risk jumps over 50 times.

BMI is the best body measurement for predicting high blood pressure in older Chinese men and women compared to other measurements.

In young Asian guys between 16 and 25 who feel fine and have no symptoms, only about 4 in 1,000 actually have high blood pressure when checked properly over 24 hours — so it’s pretty rare in this group.

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.

People with higher body weight tend to have higher blood pressure, even if they eat a lot or little salt or potassium — it’s not about those minerals, it’s about the weight itself.

Older Chinese people with high blood pressure who are obese (BMI 28 or higher) are less likely to die from any cause compared to those with a normal weight.