Arm position matters in blood pressure readings according to UCSD medical researchers
...rallel to the body. "In every body position, the systolic and diastolic blood pressure measured with the arm perpendicular to the body was significantly lower than with the arm in a parallel position," the authors said....Beta-blocker or calcium antagonist-based therapies equally effective in treating hypertension
...ients and 70.7 percent of NCAS patients achieved a systolic blood pressure of less than 140 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure of less than 90 mm Hg. "In conclusion, our results indicate that lower targets for blood pressure control can be achieved in most hypertensive patients with CAD using a multidrug str...Clinical factors useful to identify heart failure patients with high risk of death
... both 30 days and 1 year included older age, lower systolic blood pressure, higher respiratory rate, higher blood urea nitrogen levels, and hyponatremia (low sodium level in the blood). Other conditions associated with death included presence of cerebrovascular disease (43 percent increased risk of death at ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November 2003 (second issue)
...ndex, and smoking, they found that neither average systolic nor diastolic blood pressure was statistically dif...vey. They found that men with rhinitis had higher systolic blood pressure and more hypertension than those without the upper respiratory disorder. (Rhinitis i...Women treated more aggressively for hypertension, yet results similar to men
...her blood pressures," Newby continued, adding that systolic pressure was 150 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) at presentation in women and 147 mmHg in men. Even after treatment for the acute coronary syndrome, blood pressure remained higher in women (126 mmHg vs. 124 mmHg in men). "Thus, it is not clear if women...Heart failure consumes significant health care resources
... heart failure. The most widely known form, called systolic heart failure, is characterized by the inability o... failure has not been considered as serious as the systolic form because its mortality rate is about half that of systolic heart failure's 15 percent annual rat...Cardiac MRI detects thinned heart muscle previously deemed unsalvageable
...from 4.4 millimeters to 7.4 millimeters, while the systolic wall thickening increased from 4 percent to 32 percent. Systole is that part of the heart's pumping cycle when it contracts and pushes blood out to the body, while the diastole is when the heart relaxes and fills with blood in preparation for the nex...News tips for Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003
... among patients with atrial fibrillation, isolated systolic hypertension and prior stroke. Notably, there was a positive treatment-ethnicity interaction, such that atenolol tended to show a benefit in blacks. Losartan "exerts important benefits over standard therapy in hypertensives with LVH, the magnitude o...Big cut in heart failure problems from one hour of education
...p heart failure patients. The new study shows that systolic heart failure patients who received a one-hour, one-on-one education session with a nurse educator before they went home from the hospital had a 35 percent lower risk of re-hospitalization or death within 180 days of discharge than patients who recei...Bone marrow stem cells build new circulation to lungs
... PAH, were used as controls. Right ventricular systolic blood pressure (the pressure when the heart contracts) was measured 21 days later. The systolic pressure of the untreated, normal rats was 26 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). Rats with PAH had a s...Atacand(R) proven to prevent stroke in the elderly
...idence of stroke in elderly patients with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH). Data from a pre-specified anal...g. A total of 4,964 patients aged 70-89 years with systolic blood pressure 160-179 mmHg, or diastolic blood pressure 90-99 mmHg were enrolled in the SCOPE* stud...One in eight N.C. schoolchildren display three or more heart risks
...dered to have high blood pressure if their average systolic or diastolic pressure was at or above the 95th percentile for their gender, age and height on three separate occasions. The least prevalent -- 4.7 percent -- risk factor was glucose intolerance, or prediabetes, marked by a fasting glucose level of at...Elementary signs of heart disease found in children
...dered to have high blood pressure if their average systolic or diastolic pressure was at or above the 95th percentile (for their gender, age and height) on three separate occasions. The least prevalent (4.7 percent) risk factor was glucose intolerance, or prediabetes, marked by a fasting glucose level of at l...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, November 4, 2003
...isk for death of three measures of blood pressure systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and pulse...nts in a large national survey, they found that as systolic blood pressure increased, the risk of death increased steadily. The relationship between diastolic b...Systolic better than diastolic or pulse blood pressure as indicator of mortality risk
...his release has been updated on 4 November. Rising systolic blood pressure is the clearest indicator for incre...to push blood through the body. Doctors consider a systolic blood pressure greater than 120 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury) as unhealthy and can lead to heart di...Lowering blood pressure immediately after stroke can be harmful
...d almost twofold with every 10 percent decrease in systolic blood pressure (the top number) during the first 24 hours. Systolic blood pressure varied an average of 31 percent in the poor outcome group during the first 24 hours, compared to an average of 26 percent in the other patients. When blood pressure dr...NHLBI study finds hostility, impatience increase hypertension risk
...isk factor for stroke. Normal blood pressure is a systolic of less than 120 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) an...ic of less than 80 mm Hg; high blood pressure is a systolic of 140 mm Hg or higher, or a diastolic of 90 mm Hg or higher. About 50 million Americans--one in fou...U.S. blacks five times as likely as whites to progress to kidney failure
...ad higher blood pressure than whites, with average systolic and diastolic pressures of 147 and 82, versus 136 and 77. Yet he also found that diabetic blacks and white survey participants with early kidney disease had similar blood sugar levels (an indication of how well diabetes is being controlled). Differen...Weight control throughout life key to reducing risk of raised blood pressure in middle age
...od pressure. The negative effect of birthweight on systolic blood pressure has been suggested to be initiated ... Those individuals with low birthweight had higher systolic blood pressure at 36 years of age, which was sustained (although not increased) by age 53 years. Peo......nd endocrine system function included: 1) resting systolic and diastolic blood pressure, 2) pulse, and 3) salivary cortisol. Measures were taken once a week for three weeks. Results and Discussion The association between forgiveness and physiology was complex. First, forgiveness total score was associat...