Adult blood pressure categories: normal, elevated, stage 1, stage 2 (NHLBI, as in the 2017/2025 ACC/AHA guidelines) nhlbi_bp_categories@1.0
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- Status
- draft — pending clinical and coding review (draft — requires clinical and coding review)
- Condition
- Hypertension
- Tier
- 1
- Use here
- default set (blood_pressure)
- Edition
- page last updated June 26, 2025 (2025)
- Second source
- Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (open-access commentary) 2026 · partly agrees: Confirms the hypertension threshold (130/80) only; the stage table itself was not in the opened commentary.
- Contested
- yes: European guidelines define hypertension at 140/90 (ESC 2024, encoded separately as esc2024_office_bp) while AHA/ACC use 130/80.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S. National Institutes of Health), High Blood Pressure — Diagnosis
nhlbi_bp_categories@1.0Normal: Less than 120 systolic AND Less than 80 diastolic; Elevated: 120 to 129 AND Less than 80; Stage 1: 130 to 139 OR 80 to 89; Stage 2: 140 or higher OR 90 or higher; Hypertensive Crisis: Higher than 180 OR Higher than 120
page last updated June 26, 2025 (2025) · Blood pressure categories table · source
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