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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email CHD mortality related to blood pressure and age Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rate, pictured on a log scale with 95 percent confidence intervals, in each decade of age in relation to the estimated usual systolic and diastolic blood pressure at the start of that decade. CHD mortality increases with both higher pressures and older ages. For diastolic pressure, each age-specific regression line ignores the left-hand point (ie, at slightly less than 75 mmHg) for which the risk lies significantly above the fitted regression line (as indicated by the broken line below 75 mmHg). Data from: Prospective Studies Collaboration, Lancet 2002; 360:1903.

©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email CHD mortality related to blood pressure and age Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rate, pictured on a log scale with 95 percent confidence intervals, in each decade of age in relation to the estimated usual systolic and diastolic blood pressure at the start of that decade. CHD mortality increases with both higher pressures and older ages. For diastolic pressure, each age-specific regression line ignores the left-hand point (ie, at slightly less than 75 mmHg) for which the risk lies significantly above the fitted regression line (as indicated by the broken line below 75 mmHg). Data from: Prospective Studies Collaboration, Lancet 2002; 360:1903. Stroke mortality related to blood pressure and age Stroke mortality rate, pictured on a log scale with 95 percent confidence intervals, in each decade of age in relation to the estimated usual systolic and diastolic blood pressure at the start of that decade. Stroke mortality increases with both higher pressures and older ages. For diastolic pressure, each age-specific regression line ignores the left-hand point (ie, at slightly less than 75 mmHg), for which the risk lies significantly above the fitted regression line (as indicated by the broken line below 75 mmHg). Data from Prospective Studies Collaboration, Lancet 2002; 360:1903.