Heart Health

Blood pressure 130/80 or above

Below 130/80 mmHg? No

Routing stepbp-above-goalFewer than 5 people have reached this rule so far

Clinical review

All reviewers

No clinician has signed off this rule yet. It reflects our reading of the guidelines cited below, which has not been independently checked.

What someone who reaches this rule is told

This is a routing step: it says nothing itself, and decides which rule applies next. For the example person, that is Blood pressure between 130/80 and 140/90.

An example person who reaches it

“Borderline risk + high Lp(a)” — an illustrative profile, not a real user.

58-year-old manBP 132/82LDL 140Lp(a) 78 mg/dL10-yr PREVENT-ASCVD 4.9%

Their path through blood pressure

  1. Below 130/80 mmHg?No ← this rule
  2. Diabetes (incl. by A1c), known CVD, CKD (low eGFR or albuminuria), or 10-yr PREVENT-CVD ≥7.5%?No — standard threshold applies (140/90)
  3. At or above 140/90?No

Where it sits

Then asks: Diabetes (incl. by A1c), known CVD, CKD (low eGFR or albuminuria), or 10-yr PREVENT-CVD ≥7.5%?

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Runs in lib/engine/bpPathway.ts as bp-above-goal.