Low and high systolic blood pressures at admission are tied to worse outcomes after endovascular thrombectomy, but the latter ...

Risk factor comparable to low physical activity, researcher suggests ...

Reducing salt in breads and in prepackaged foods could prevent cardiovascular disease, according to 2 recent studies.

Eating beets regularly increases your intake of natural nitrates, which can help manage blood pressure levels.

Systolic blood pressure that is too low -- as well as too high -- may put patients who have had a noncardioembolic ischemic stroke at risk for another one, researchers found. Compared with patients ...

Not all proteins function the same way in the body, especially when it comes to heart health. In a review of controlled ...

Under current guidelines, a systolic blood pressure reading between 140-150 is considered healthy. A national trial completed in late 2015, however, showed that reducing systolic blood pressure to ...

Systolic blood pressure has a continuous, graded, strong, independent, and aetiologically significant relationship to mortality from coronary heart disease, stroke, and all cardiovascular diseases, as ...

Cardiovascular risk continues to reduce as systolic blood pressure decreases right down to levels as low as 90 mm Hg, a new study has shown. The study analyzed data from a cohort of 1457 participants ...

Individuals with diastolic blood pressure under 70 mm Hg coupled with an elevated systolic blood pressure may have a greater risk of heart attack and stroke than indicated by the systolic blood ...

People with only mildly elevated systolic blood pressure have a high risk of stroke similar to those with significantly raised systolic or diastolic blood pressure, long-term follow-up of a large ...