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Health statistics

What is normal? Here you will find BioProfile's statistics pages, by topic. Each page gives the guidelines and shows for every figure where it comes from: the source, the group of people measured and what the figure does not say.

Heart and blood vessels

Normal heart rate: the guidelines, and where the figures come from

A review in the medical journal CMAJ brought together 46 cohort studies from different countries, which followed more than 1.2 million people in total: a higher resting heart rate went together with higher mortality, a relative risk of 1.09 for every extra 10 beats per minute (2016).

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