New Research Suggests Revising Blood Pressure Guidelines

June 14, 2019

Research led by CP3 postdoc Dr. Jingchuan (Serena) Guo suggests that American Diabetes Association Guidelines for blood pressure for individuals with Type 1 diabetes are too high.  Current guidelines for preventing coronary artery disease (CAD) are 140/90 for individuals with lower risk and 130/80 for those with higher risk. Dr. Guo's work found that those with blood pressure higher than 120/80 raised CAD risk levels three times for the study cohort. Dr. Guo notes that there is no clinical data available for these guidelines.  Her work was picked up in Healio and Medscape.