... disease," he said. "The one-size-fits-all, 140/90 mm Hg goal isn't adequate for people ... Their blood pressure should be below 130/80 mm Hg, if possible."
Once a patient is diagnosed with hypertension ...
... adult is systolic pressure of 140 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) or higher and/or diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. High blood pressure increases the risk of heart attack, angina, stroke, ...
... a blood pressure reading over 140/90 mm Hg at the start of their clinic visits. The national goal ... change in patients with a reading over 140/90 mm Hg.
Uncertainty about what the patient’s blood ...
... systolic and diastolic blood pressure by a mean difference of 9.70 mm Hg and 6.74 mm Hg, respectively. Topiramate also significantly lowered plasma cholesterol levels by an average of 16.4 mg/ ...
... blood pressure was controlled (under 140/90 mm Hg), Dr. Green said. "And in the people with the highest blood pressure (at least 160 mm Hg systolic), who are usually hardest to treat, this Web-based ...
... hypertension with blood pressure levels higher than 140/90 mm Hg might decrease by more than 10 percent and increase ... -normal or pre-hypertensive blood pressure levels of 120/80 mm Hg to 130/85 mm Hg, ...
... who wake up too early — had an average 4 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) higher systolic blood pressure compared to children with higher sleep efficiency.
The study of 238 (123 boys ...
... 24-hour ambulatory BP during allopurinol were −6.3 mm Hg, systolic; −4.6, diastolic BP. Systolic BP increased slightly during the placebo phase by 0.8 mm Hg and diastolic BP slightly decreased by 0.3 ...
... their blood pressure at a target level of less than 130/80 mm Hg (millimeters of mercury). The average age at the start of the study was 55 years.
During 11 years' follow-up, the ...
... 1,335 white adults. The mean blood pressure among blacks with hypertension was approximately six mm/Hg (millimeters of mercury) higher than that for the total adult black population and seven mm/Hg ...
... exposure; and led to a 1.6 millimeter of mercury (mm Hg) jump in systolic blood pressure on the day following exposure.
Furthermore, researchers found that although the participants ...
... breaths per minute, and hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure) assessed as blood pressure lower than 90 mm Hg.
Hospital-wide code rates per 1,000 admissions were ...
... benefit of one hour of additional sleep was comparable to the gains from lowering systolic blood pressure by 17 mm Hg. About 12 percent of those in the study, healthy volunteers in ...
... cardiogenic shock dropped 5.7 percent per year. But the proportion with systolic blood pressure of 100 mm Hg or less was unchanged, and the percentage with an abnormal pulse rate — ...
... American, Pacific Islander) have high blood pressure: 140/90 mm/Hg or higher have an HDL cholesterol less than 35 mg/dL or a triglyceride level 250 mg/dL or higher have ...
