What is the BP cutoff value for the diagnosis of hypertension?

diagnostic for hypertension. However, even considering the limitations that are inherent to the measurement of blood pressure levels performed at a single occasion for the diagnosis of hypertension, I believe the study would have better portrayed what is taking place concerning the prevalence of the disease if the cutoff had been 140/90 mmHg, which is the one recommended by several national and international guidelines2-5. Therefore, it would be interesting to perform a reanalysis of the presented data using the cutoff that is adopted worldwide. The threshold used in this study tends to reduce the disease detection sensitivity and, consequently, might have underestimated the SAH prevalence found in this sample.