ANSWER: Blood pressure levels go up and down all day and all night, but there are some common patterns to blood pressure ...

Diet: High salt intake is a major contributor. Excessive sodium in the bloodstream disrupts the balance of sodium and ...

Many people make these common mistakes when taking blood pressure at home, experts say. A cardiologist provides tips for ...

High blood pressure is defined by elevated readings in either systolic (top number) or diastolic (bottom number) blood ...

government officials issued revised blood pressure guidelines that included a new category: prehypertension. Anyone with a systolic (top number) reading of 120 or over, or a diastolic (bottom ...

We examined the relationship of systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure, and pulse pressure to coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease risk in a prospective population-based ...

A new study highlights the link between visit-to-visit blood pressure variability (BPV) and cognitive decline in older adults ...

Metformin reduced diastolic blood pressure only marginally, the mean placebo-corrected reduction being consistently less than 1mm Hg. The mean between-group difference in the systolic blood ...

Watermelon didn’t have such a strong effect - it reduced systolic blood pressure to 129.8mmHg. This may be because water melon is mainly water- there isn’t much of the active ingredient.

The study found that women who ate more fried potatoes had slightly higher blood pressure (both systolic and diastolic, the ...

Women with pregnancy-onset OSA had significantly higher nocturnal systolic BP and daytime diastolic BP, relative to those ...