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class=\"wp-image-9771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-b51af31b.webp 1200w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-b51af31b-300x158.webp 300w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-b51af31b-1024x538.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-b51af31b-768x403.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--body is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-takeaways is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In short<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Healthy blood pressure in numbers: in the United States, about 122.4 million adults have high blood pressure, and only 20.7% of the people who know it reach readings below 130\/80.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>In the Netherlands, 15.4% of the people surveyed said they had had high blood pressure in the past 12 months, according to RIVM figures published in 2026.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>The new advisory from the American Heart Association is not an experiment but a map: it describes how healthcare practices, communities and workplaces could work together, and it reports no new measured results.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>The Hartstichting points to the age of 40 as the moment when the chance of high blood pressure starts to rise.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-toc is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-toclabel wp-block-paragraph\">Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><a href=\"#gezonde-bloeddruk-een-getal-waar-je-zelden-aan-denkt\">Healthy blood pressure: a number you rarely think about<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#je-bent-verre-van-de-enige\">You are far from the only one<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#waarom-een-meting-te-hoog-blijft\">Why a reading stays too high<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-al-bekend-was-en-waar-het-ophield\">What was already known, and where it stopped<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#een-nieuwe-kaart-van-de-american-heart-association\">A new map from the American Heart Association<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-een-logisch-model-is\">What a logic model is<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#twee-plekken-die-de-kaart-bereikt-de-spreekkamer-en-de-werkplek\">Two places the map reaches: the consulting room and the workplace<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#waarom-de-leeftijd-van-40-ertoe-doet\">Why the age of 40 matters<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-het-advies-wel-en-niet-liet-zien\">What the advisory did and did not show<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-je-nu-kunt-doen\">What you can do now<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"gezonde-bloeddruk-een-getal-waar-je-zelden-aan-denkt\">Healthy blood pressure: a number you rarely think about<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-lead wp-block-paragraph\">You feel fine, and a healthy blood pressure is the last thing on your mind. You cycle or drive to work, sit through a morning full of meetings, eat lunch at your desk and take the stairs without a second thought. At the end of the day you sink into the sofa. Nothing hurts, nothing feels odd. It has been a while since anyone put a cuff around your arm, and you no longer remember what the monitor showed. Blood pressure is one of those things where you assume you have a healthy blood pressure, until someone tells you otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is the strange thing about it. Raised blood pressure is often something you do not notice yourself, so the only way to know is to measure it. And one reading is only the beginning: the number has to be known, followed up and discussed, sometimes for years. Somewhere along that chain, the story stops for a great many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"je-bent-verre-van-de-enige\">You are far from the only one<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large bp-blog-partfig\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s2-2aaf8946.webp\" alt=\"Four middle-aged friends sit laughing at a long wooden table on a garden terrace in the evening light, with plates of grilled vegetables and bread.\" class=\"wp-image-9772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s2-2aaf8946.webp 1200w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s2-2aaf8946-300x158.webp 300w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s2-2aaf8946-1024x538.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s2-2aaf8946-768x403.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Netherlands, 15.4% of the people surveyed said they had high blood pressure in the past 12 months, now or at some point. These are self-reported figures for 2023 to 2025, which the RIVM published in 2026 through VZinfo.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup> That is roughly one in seven people, and it only counts those who know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the European Union, 22% of people aged 15 and over had high blood pressure in the 2019 health survey, and with 16%, the Netherlands was among the countries with the lowest share (Eurostat, 2021).\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup> Worldwide, the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration found that the number of people aged 30 to 79 with high blood pressure doubled between 1990 and 2019, to 626 million women and 652 million men (The Lancet, 2021).\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup> In the United States alone, the American Heart Association counts about 122.4 million adults with high blood pressure (2026).\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want a first indication of how your own heart and blood vessels are doing, <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/heart-self-test\/\">the BioProfile heart and blood vessel scan<\/a> gives you a starting point. The scan is not a diagnosis. It is about insight, about seeing where you stand today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"waarom-een-meting-te-hoog-blijft\">Why a reading stays too high<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the United States, only 20.7% of people who know they have high blood pressure reach readings below 130\/80 mm Hg, the level the American Heart Association counts as under control, even though effective options do exist.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> Put simply: of every five people who already know, about four do not get that far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reasons are rarely one thing. A reading has to be taken, repeated and discussed; care has to be within reach and followed through; and daily life, from your work to your neighbourhood, decides how much room there is for all of that. The differences in control also persist between racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and geographic groups.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-al-bekend-was-en-waar-het-ophield\">What was already known, and where it stopped<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2013, an earlier scientific advisory from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued that a whole system works better than separate efforts: fixed steps in care, good record keeping, feedback, team-based care and involving patients, families and health systems, rather than information alone.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One large American health system showed what that can look like. At Kaiser Permanente Northern California, the share of people with high blood pressure under control rose from 43.6% in 2001 to 80.4% in 2009, from less than half to about four in five, while the national average rose much less, from 55.4% to 64.1%.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup> That study followed a pattern over time rather than running an experiment, so it does not show that the programme alone caused the rise. It does show that the rise and the programme went together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Worldwide the gap stayed wide: in 2019 blood pressure was under control in 23% of women and 18% of men with high blood pressure, and some middle-income countries now do better than most high-income countries.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup> That is where knowledge stopped. An organised system within a single care setting could raise the numbers, but there was no shared plan for everything outside the consulting room: the neighbourhood, the workplace, information that fits the people it is meant for, all working at the same time and all measured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"een-nieuwe-kaart-van-de-american-heart-association\">A new map from the American Heart Association<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 29 September 2026, the journal Hypertension published a scientific advisory titled &#8220;American Heart Association&#8217;s Strategic Approach to Promoting Blood Pressure Control&#8221;.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> The authors are Y. Commodore-Mensah, B.K. Bellows, A.P. Smith, J.T. Flynn, A.D. Pressley, S. Honeycutt, E. Sanchez, M. Abdalla and S. Nesbitt, who write on behalf of the American Heart Association and several of the association&#8217;s scientific councils. The database listing does not say where each author works. It is not a preprint but an article in a journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The advisory does not report a new experiment. It presents the American Heart Association Blood Pressure Control Logic Model: a visual framework of how resources and activities in healthcare and in the community are meant to lead to results. The association has made blood pressure control that is fairly shared across groups one of its central priorities, and this model is the plan that goes with that choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why this matters to you: most of what decides whether a blood pressure stays within a healthy range happens outside the short time in a consulting room. It happens at work, at home, in the information you receive and in whether someone measures again. A plan that takes those places seriously is a plan about your ordinary days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-een-logisch-model-is\">What a logic model is<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large bp-blog-partfig\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s5-32e4ce6b.webp\" alt=\"A doctor and a middle-aged man talk in a relaxed way in a bright consulting room, with a blood pressure monitor on the desk between them.\" class=\"wp-image-9773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s5-32e4ce6b.webp 1200w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s5-32e4ce6b-300x158.webp 300w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s5-32e4ce6b-1024x538.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s5-32e4ce6b-768x403.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The one idea worth understanding here is the logic model itself. It sounds technical, but it is a way of thinking you probably already use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A logic model is a chain of &#8220;if this, then that&#8221; steps on a single page: what you put in, what you do with it, what you expect to change, and the bigger effect you are aiming for. Each link has to hold before the next one can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the advisory, the chain runs like this.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> The inputs are what an organisation brings: staff expertise, data systems, funding and partnerships. Those inputs flow through four strategies: changing the healthcare environment through research and policy reform; education that fits the culture of the people it is meant for; better quality of clinical care; and involving community organisations and workplaces in health promotion. Those activities lead to measurable outcomes, and the outcomes lead to effects on the whole population: fairer results and a lower chance of problems with the heart and blood vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two features make this more than a diagram. The four strategies are meant to run at the same time: information without better care, or better care that nobody nearby hears about, leaves a link loose. And the model has a plan say in advance what it will measure, which is why the statement stresses thorough evaluation and lasting collaboration between sectors. A chain you cannot test is only a wish. The authors call the model adaptable, so that other organisations can use it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"twee-plekken-die-de-kaart-bereikt-de-spreekkamer-en-de-werkplek\">Two places the map reaches: the consulting room and the workplace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The model becomes clearer when you hang a real situation on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first example is the doctor&#8217;s surgery. The Kaiser Permanente programme fits neatly onto the map.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup> A register of everyone with high blood pressure and shared performance figures are inputs: data systems. Guidelines and appointments with a medical assistant just to have your blood pressure measured are activities within the strategy of better clinical care. The rising share of people with their blood pressure under control is the outcome. In the terms of a logic model, it was one strong chain within one health system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second example is the workplace, which the advisory names as one of the places to involve.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> The summary does not describe a specific workplace programme, so do not read this as something the advisory reports, but as an illustration of the map. A partnership with an employer is the input. A moment at work when people can have their blood pressure measured and hear in plain words what the number means is the activity. The outcome to measure is how many employees know their own readings and take next steps with them. You spend a large part of your waking hours at work, and that is exactly why the advisory puts the workplace on the same page as the doctor&#8217;s surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"waarom-de-leeftijd-van-40-ertoe-doet\">Why the age of 40 matters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A chain only works if people step into it, and many people do so late. Mirjam Wolder of the Hartstichting put it clearly.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High blood pressure is often seen as a complaint of old age, while the chance of it already rises from the age of 40.<\/p>\n<cite>Mirjam Wolder, programme manager Eerder Opsporen, Hartstichting<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words: high blood pressure is often seen as a complaint of old age, while the chance of it already starts to rise from 40. David Smeekes, a doctor at the same foundation, links that age to measuring.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">8<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the age of 40, you are more likely to have high blood pressure, for men and women alike.<\/p>\n<cite>David Smeekes, doctor, Hartstichting<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words: from 40, men and women alike run a higher chance. A measured number is the first link in every chain in the advice: before care, health information or a programme at work can do anything, a number has to be known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-het-advies-wel-en-niet-liet-zien\">What the statement did and did not show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The advisory set out a plan: an adaptable map of how organisations can work together on blood pressure.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who: no one, in the sense of a study. The advisory is not an experiment but a framework. No group of people was studied, so there is no population and no size to report; the background figures describe adults in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What the statement did not show weighs just as much. It reports no new measured outcome, and it does not show that organisations using the model end up with more people whose blood pressure is under control; according to the statement, that is exactly what still needs to be evaluated. How well an American plan carries over to the Dutch system, with the central role of the GP, is not mentioned. And BioProfile has not read the full text, only the abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-je-nu-kunt-doen\">What you can do now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large bp-blog-partfig\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s6-a75b5bd5.webp\" alt=\"A middle-aged woman checks blood pressure at home at the kitchen table, wearing an upper-arm cuff, with a glass of water and a notebook beside the monitor.\" class=\"wp-image-9774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s6-a75b5bd5.webp 1200w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s6-a75b5bd5-300x158.webp 300w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s6-a75b5bd5-1024x538.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bp-blog-gezonde-bloeddruk-nieuw-advies-american-heart-association-s6-a75b5bd5-768x403.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Know your own numbers. Have your blood pressure measured, at your GP practice or at home. If you measure at home, Thuisarts explains how to do it and asks you to bring your readings to your next appointment, so a GP sees the whole picture rather than a single moment.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">9<\/a><\/sup> A heart rate is a different number; what counts as normal is explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/normal-heart-rate\/\">our article on a normal heart rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at how much you sit. Your working day is one of the places the advice points to, and a place where you decide a lot yourself. What moving too little does to your body is explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/effects-of-too-little-movement-what-it-does-to-your-body\/\">our article on moving too little<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out where you stand. The open question after reading about a plan like this is a personal one: how are your own heart and blood vessels doing today, and where would you start? The heart and vascular scan gives you a first indication, a starting point to come back to.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-cta is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See how your heart and blood vessels are doing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heart and blood vessel scan gives you a first indication of where you stand in this area today, as a starting point you can come back to. The scan is not a diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/heart-self-test\/\">Start the heart and vascular scan<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-ctamicro wp-block-paragraph\">Free, about 3 minutes. An analysis of your answers, never a diagnosis. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/free-health-check-tests\/\">All health scans<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--wash is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is a normal blood pressure by age?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sources behind this article do not give a table by age. What the sources do say: the chance of high blood pressure rises from about the age of 40, in women and men alike,\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">8<\/a><\/sup> and the guidance counts values below 130\/80 mm Hg as blood pressure that is under control.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> For measurements at home, Thuisarts calls an average systolic (upper) pressure below 135 good, and below 145 from the age of 70.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">9<\/a><\/sup> What is right for you personally is for a GP to judge.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is a blood pressure of 140\/90 good?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Hartstichting, blood pressure is normal when it is below 140\/90 mmHg, so 140\/90 sits exactly on that line, and a single reading that comes out higher does not say much on its own.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">8<\/a><\/sup> The new American advisory uses a stricter measure: it counts readings below 130\/80 mm Hg as under control, and 140\/90 is above that on both numbers.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup> Thuisarts asks people who measure at home to bring their readings to their next appointment.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is an alarming blood pressure?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thuisarts gives limits for measurements at home. Call your GP or the out-of-hours GP service straight away if your systolic (upper) pressure is higher than 180 and you have symptoms such as a headache, nausea, poor vision or dizziness. Call your GP on a working day if your average systolic pressure is 135 or higher and you are younger than 70, or 145 or higher from the age of 70.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is a healthy blood pressure for women?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In these sources, the same standard applies to women and men, and from around the age of 40, both groups are more likely to have high blood pressure.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">8<\/a><\/sup> Worldwide in 2019, blood pressure was under control in 23% of women and 18% of men with high blood pressure.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What does the heart and vascular scan tell me?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scan gives you a first indication of where you stand today, as a starting point. The scan is not a diagnosis. A real blood pressure reading comes from a cuff around your arm, at home or at the GP, and what that reading means for you is for a GP to judge.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--beige bp-blog-sec--tight is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bronnen\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-srclead wp-block-paragraph\">Every source below was checked on the day this article was published. The numbering follows the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list bp-blog-refs\">\n\n<li>Commodore-Mensah Y, Bellows BK, Smith AP, Flynn JT, Pressley AD, Honeycutt S, Sanchez E, Abdalla M, Nesbitt S; on behalf of the American Heart Association. American Heart Association&#8217;s Strategic Approach to Promoting Blood Pressure Control: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association. Hypertension, 2026 (published online 29 September 2026; PMID 42808152). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1161\/HYP.0000000000000266\">doi.org\/10.1161\/HYP.0000000000000266<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>RIVM. Bloeddruk: regionaal. VZinfo (Volksgezondheid en Zorg), 2026 (updated 07-09-2026; self-reported, period 2023-2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vzinfo.nl\/bloeddruk\/regionaal\">vzinfo.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Mirjam Wolder, programme manager Eerder Opsporen, Hartstichting. Gemiddeld 2 mmHg eraf levert zo&#8217;n 6.000 minder hartpati\u00ebnten op. Hartstichting Professionals, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/professionals.hartstichting.nl\/actualiteiten\/gemiddeld-2-mmhg-eraf-levert-zon-6000-minder-hartpatienten-op\">professionals.hartstichting.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Eurostat. 22% of people in the EU have high blood pressure. Eurostat News, 29 September 2021 (European Health Interview Survey 2019, age 15 and over). <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/products-eurostat-news\/-\/edn-20210929-1\">ec.europa.eu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants. The Lancet, 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(21)01330-1\">doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(21)01330-1<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Go AS, Bauman MA, Coleman King SM, Fonarow GC, Lawrence W, Williams KA, Sanchez E. An effective approach to high blood pressure control: a science advisory from the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hypertension, 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1161\/HYP.0000000000000003\">doi.org\/10.1161\/HYP.0000000000000003<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Jaffe MG, Lee GA, Young JD, Sidney S, Go AS. Improved blood pressure control associated with a large-scale hypertension program. JAMA, 2013. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2013.108769\">doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2013.108769<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>David Smeekes, doctor, Hartstichting. Hartstichting adviseert: meet echt jaarlijks uw bloeddruk. MAX Vandaag, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxvandaag.nl\/sessies\/themas\/gezondheid-sport\/hartstichting-adviseert-meet-echt-jaarlijks-uw-bloeddruk\/\">maxvandaag.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>NHG. Ik ga zelf thuis mijn bloeddruk meten. Thuisarts.nl. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thuisarts.nl\/hoge-bloeddruk\/ik-ga-zelf-thuis-mijn-bloeddruk-meten\">thuisarts.nl<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-srcnote wp-block-paragraph\">Quotes from Dutch sources appear in Dutch and have been translated into the other languages by BioProfile.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--tight is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Also read<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-related is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/heart-rate-and-fitness-talking-therapy-heart-rhythm\/\">Heart rate and fitness: can talking therapy change your heart rhythm?<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/transcendental-meditation-at-work\/\">Transcendental Meditation at work: what six months among university staff showed<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--foot is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-legal wp-block-paragraph\">BioProfile analyses your health status to guide you and your coach. It does not make a diagnosis, only a doctor can do that. Built on validated health questionnaires; the combined BioProfile score is not itself a validated clinical instrument yet. Your answers stay private (GDPR).<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy blood pressure: only one in five people in the US who know they must lower it reach the target. 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