Systolic blood pressure has a continuous, graded, strong, independent, and aetiologically significant relationship to mortality from coronary heart disease, stroke, and all cardiovascular diseases, as ...

Eating beets regularly increases your intake of natural nitrates, which can help manage blood pressure levels.

Systolic blood pressure that is too low -- as well as too high -- may put patients who have had a noncardioembolic ischemic stroke at risk for another one, researchers found. Compared with patients ...

Under current guidelines, a systolic blood pressure reading between 140-150 is considered healthy. A national trial completed in late 2015, however, showed that reducing systolic blood pressure to ...

Cardiovascular risk continues to reduce as systolic blood pressure decreases right down to levels as low as 90 mm Hg, a new study has shown. The study analyzed data from a cohort of 1457 participants ...

Systolic hypertension is a major health economy problem within our aging society. Increased arterial stiffness is the vascular phenotype of systolic hypertension, especially of the large arteries.

The findings support 2017 guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association to more aggressively treat high blood pressure. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure ...

Individuals with diastolic blood pressure under 70 mm Hg coupled with an elevated systolic blood pressure may have a greater risk of heart attack and stroke than indicated by the systolic blood ...

People with only mildly elevated systolic blood pressure have a high risk of stroke similar to those with significantly raised systolic or diastolic blood pressure, long-term follow-up of a large ...

Dr. Clyde Yancy answers the question: 'Importance Of Blood Pressure Numbers?' — -- Question: Is the top (systolic) or the bottom (diastolic) blood pressure more important? Answer: One of the big ...