Is a lower target blood pressure needed to prevent coronary atherosclerosis progression?
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The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) classifies patients as normotensive (blood pressure [BP] <120/80 mmHg), prehypertensive (systolic BP 120–139 mmHg or diastolic BP 80–89 mmHg) or hypertensive (systolic BP 
140 mmHg or diastolic BP 90 mmHg). Although prehypertensive BP levels are thought to be associated with increased cardiovascular risk, the target BP level for the general population is still <140/90 mmHg. Sipahi et al. investigated whether this target should be lower, especially in patients with established coronary artery disease.
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