in a minute and look at blood pressure so here's a graph that shows you the relationship between cardiovascular events and blood pressure over a 15-year time period so this includes both heart attacks and strokes and you can look at the rate of heart attacks and strokes and somebody whose blood pressure is in the 140 over 90 type of range 130 over 85 and 120 over 80 and you can see that the lower the better so that lower blood pressures lower risks of cardiovascular events particularly strokes so what we like to