High systolic blood pressure, often just called high blood pressure or hypertension, is a common condition that can lead to ...

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Hypertension-related stroke risk can be decreased by lowering systolic BP to less than 140 mm Hg via aggressive pharmacological treatment.

Because so many people have high blood pressure and the consequences of untreated or poorly treated high blood pressure ...

People who have been diagnosed with high blood pressure may want to check again. That’s because many commonly used arm positions for blood pressure checks can lead to inaccurately high readings, ...

On several repeat measurements the same thing was found -- a high systolic but normal diastolic pressure. A subsequently purchased home monitor originally gave systolic readings of about 135 mm Hg ...

People may end up misdiagnosed with high blood pressure simply because their arm is in the wrong position when a reading is ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine Normal blood pressure is defined as less than 120 systolic pressure and less than 80 diastolic. Stage 1 high blood pressure is when systolic is 130 to 139 or diastolic is 80 ...

A classic example of diastolic heart failure (HF) is a little old lady with systolic hypertension who presents with increasing breathlessness and, on examination, is found to have a high systolic ...