What are the cutoff values for increased exercise blood pressure to predict incident hypertension in a general population?
Exercise systolic blood pressure cutoffs of 190 mmHg for women and 210 mmHg for men at maximum exercise can be used to predict incident hypertension.
According to our analyses, 190 and 210 mmHg are clinically relevant cutoff values for increased exercise SBP at the maximum exercise level of cycle ergometry test for women and men, respectively. In addition, for men, our analyses provided a cutoff value of 160 mmHg for increased exercise SBP at the 100 W level.
Lorbeer et al. (Wed,) studied this question.