Continued monitoring shows over three quarters of people that are diagnosed with hypertension are fifty and over and as such the greatest pressure of high blood pressure is mainly due to systolic pressure.
Professor Williams of Leicester suggested that medical teams need to re-think the way they measure blood pressure considering the demographics and to focus only on the higher of the two conventional readings.
Systolic pressure is the peak pressure in the arteries at the start of the heart's pumping cycle and is the key risk factor for older patients who are at higher risk of cardiovascular and heart problems reported the Lancet medical journal.
Diastolic pressure is the lowest pressure during the rest phase of the heart cycle and it is concluded that measuring diastolic pressure readings for diagnosis and susceptibility analysis in the over fifties has thus become illogical.
Benefits of measuring only systolic pressure should simplify treatment strategies and make it easier for patients to understand their high blood pressure condition.
Additionally it would encourage researchers at pharmaceutical companies to develop high blood pressure medicines that would focus on addressing the correct blood pressure target.
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