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...g millimeters of mercury, the measurement units of systolic and diastolic blood pressure," states Suzanne Opar...fectiveness of the approach in reaching individual systolic and diastolic goals. At week eight, nearly two out of three (65.9 percent) patients reached goal di...May/June 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... sign found to predict adverse clinical events was systolic blood pressure. Specifically, the researchers found that an elevation of 10 mmHg in blood pressure was associated with an increase in risk ranging from 6 percent for stroke or myocardial infarction to 13 percent for chronic renal insufficiency. The...Jefferson researchers announce recommendations on when to test blood pressure in young children
...alkner says. "Prehypertension refers to an average systolic blood pressure or diastolic blood pressure that is greater than or equal to the 90th percentile, but less than the 95th percentile in children. By adolescence, a blood pressure reading of greater than 120/80 is considered to be prehypertension. "We ...Blood pressure for children and adolescents on the rise
...w Orleans, and colleagues examined data, including systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels, from two stud...tween the NHANES III and NHANES 1999-2000 surveys, systolic blood pressure levels increased an average of 1.4 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure levels increase...Average blood pressure levels on rise among American children/teenagers
...r each 1- to 2-millimeter of mercury rise in their systolic blood pressure, children face a 10 percent greater...nder 13 years. In 1988-94, the children's average systolic blood pressure was 104.6 mm Hg and their average diastolic pressure was 58.4 mm Hg. In 1999-2000, t...Caffeine consumption associated with increases in blood pressure in adolescents
...sing, and African American adolescents have higher systolic blood pressures (the top blood pressure number) th...The researchers found that the association between systolic blood pressure and caffeine category varied by race. African Americans consuming more than 100 mill...Link between caffeine consumption, high blood pressure found in adolescents
...ounce sodas had the highest pressures. The top or systolic number, which indicates the pressure inside blood ...ack adolescents who consumed the most caffeine had systolic pressures that averaged 13.9 millimeters higher than blacks who consumed less than 50 milligrams of ...Is there a relationship between repeated pregnancies and increased cardiovascular disease?
...rom the breeding program. Mean arterial pressure, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure were ...ly recorded and changes in mean arterial pressure, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure were compared. In addition, vascular reactivity and comp...'Exercise Hypertension' occurs when cells can't 'relax,' Hopkins researchers find
...to exercise is exaggerated. Instead of reaching a systolic (upper number) blood pressure of around 200 mmHg a...lood pressures at rest ranged from 130 to 159 mmHg systolic (the upper number) and 85 to 99 mmHg diastolic (the lower number). To measure endothelial function,...Home blood pressure test may be better than office test for predicting cardiovascular events
...each 10-mm Hg (millimeters of mercury) increase in systolic [first, larger BP number] BP increased the risk of a cardiovascular event by 17.2 percent and each 5-mm Hg increase in diastolic [second, smaller BP number] BP increased that risk by 11.7 percent," the authors write. "Conversely, for the same incre...Blood pressure may predict recurrent cardiovascular events in women
...each 10 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) increase in systolic blood pressure (the top number in a reading), a wo...t but, relatively speaking, in our cohort of women systolic blood pressure proved to be the stronger predictor of risk," he said. The researchers found increas...Many patients can reduce serious heart disease risk factors without medication
...esults showed that 64% of patients achieved their systolic blood pressure goal (less than130 mmHg for patients with diabetes and/or chronic renal disease and less than 140 mmHg for others) and 67% of patients achieved their diastolic blood pressure goal (less than 80 mmHg for patients with diabetes and/or ...Obesity leads to high blood pressure in the young
...nd NHANES IV. Similar patterns were seen for both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The increase in high blood pressure follows 10 years after an increase in body mass index years in the children. "The HBP trends in youth mirrors adult trends in hypertension," said Din-Dzietham. "After NHANES II, BMI...America's teens: Growing up and out
...p) of BMI with cholesterol was 16 percent and with systolic blood pressure was 23 percent, while in 2001 to 2003, these correlations rose to 32 percent and 38 percent, respectively. Studying teenagers and their parents allowed the researchers to remove some of the genetic components that could have explained...Lifetime stroke risk higher for women, those with high blood pressure
... had stage one hypertension, which is defined as a systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg or higher or a diastolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg or higher had more than twice the risk for stroke than people who had normal blood pressure," she said. Seshadri and colleagues also analyzed lifetime risk for another dis...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2004 (first issue)
...who had congestive heart failure helped to improve systolic heart function, reduce oxygen deficiency in the blood, lessen sympathetic nerve activity, and enhance the quality of life. The Australian investigators showed significant improvements over 3 months in 19 patients in the CPAP-treated group, as contra...Patients with diabetes have poor control of risk factors for vascular disease
...5.8 percent of participants achieved the target of systolic blood pressure (SBP) less than 130 mm Hg and diastolic (DBP) less than 80 mm Hg, and 40.4 percent had hypertensive blood pressure levels (SBP 140 or greater or DBP 90 mm Hg or greater). These percentages did not change significantly from NHANES III. ...Melatonin may have an effect on nocturnal blood pressure
...ents taking repeated melatonin had lower nighttime systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) by 6 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) and diastolic blood pressure (bottom number) by 4 mm Hg. The single dose of melatonin had no effect on blood pressure. Patients taking melatonin also re...Risk for lowered cognitive performance is greater in people at high risk for stroke
...ithin 10 years using weighted combinations of age, systolic blood-pressure, presence of diabetes, cigarette smoking, history of cardiovascular disease, treatment for hypertension and atrial fibrillation. After determining the risk of stroke for each individual, the researchers assessed cognitive ability by te...Dietary supplements containing ephedra and caffeine may cause heart problems
...ients, on corrected QT (QTc) interval duration and systolic blood pressure. The QTc interval is a measure o...rage], 419.4 versus 396.1 milliseconds) and higher systolic blood pressure (mean, 123.5 versus 118.93 mm Hg [millimeters/mercury] compared with placebo," the au...