High systolic BP in patients with chest pain linked with favourable prognosis

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 08:57 in Health & Medicine

New research finds that there is an inverse association between the level of supine (lying face up) systolic blood pressure measured on admission to an intensive care unit for acute chest pain and risk of death at one year, with those patients having high systolic blood pressure having a better prognosis after a year, according to a study in the March 24/31 issue of JAMA...

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