Seven-Year Increase in Exercise Systolic Blood Pressure at Moderate Workload Predicts Long-Term Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality in Healthy Middle-Aged Men.

The article investigates whether changes in exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) in a span of 7 years can predict coronary heart disease (CHD) and mortality among men over the next 28 years. Findings suggest that an increase in exercise SBP at 100 W workload in a span of 7 years is independently linked to heightened long-term risk of CHD. This lends support to a previous research finding that high exercise SBP is an important risk factor for CHD in healthy men.