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In the United States the frequency of high blood pressure rose steadily until it reached a peak in the 1960's, then began a dramatic decline: from 37.2% to 2.7% around 1990. No one really knows why.https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.106.683243#TBL3186313 …
Americans are gigantic and yet they're not being punished for it: blood pressure and heart attack mortality have both declined even as obesity has increased. This has happened in the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea despite very different overall diets.
Changes in obvious risk factors like smoking fail to explain a majority of the decline: I suspect changes in infection and inflammation to be important, as evidenced in the simultaneous decline in average body temperature.
Could aspirin consumption have anything to do with? I believe this has declined.
Here's a map of worldwide rates over time: https://www.ncdrisc.org/blood-pressure-raised-map.html …
Interesting to square it with the observations of @mold_time of pathogenic character of obesity epidemic. Also rise of diabetes. Need to check out time-frame.
Anyone plot this against the use of statins?
Blood pressure was similarly high in young children
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