New guidelines suggest that people older than 60 can have ahigher blood pressure than previously...Kolata, Gina
blood pressure n. Abbr. BP The pressure exerted by the blood against the walls of the blood vessels, especially the arteries. It varies with the strength of the heartbeat, the elasticity of the arterial walls, the volume and viscosity of the blood, and a person's health, age, and ...
A low salt diet will significantly lower blood pressure. The effect is most pronounced in the middle-aged or elderly, but the beneficial effects of the low sodium diet are seen in all people regardless of age, sex, race, diabetes, or body mass index. The effect is then whether a person...
As we age, it becomes more important than ever to prioritize our heart health. One key aspect of monitoring heart health is regularly checking and tracking blood pressure levels. A blood pressure monitor is a crucial tool that can help seniors manage their cardiovascular health and pre...
Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure for patients younger than 65 years of age with those aged 65 years and older, and to analyze whether factor groupings (subsets of criteria used to determine adherence) were predictive of blood pressure control....
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“Before the first definitive clinical-trial evidence supporting blood-pressure-lowering treatment was produced in the mid-1980s, systolichypertensionwas regarded as a natural feature of aging and some feared excessive harm from blood-pressure lowering in this age group,” said lead review author Dr...
Distributions of blood pressure indices including systolic/diastolic BP, and mean arterial pressure (MAP) by age category (8–12 and 13–17 years) and sex category (boys and girls) of this study population are shown in Table 3. The older children and the boys were more likely to have high...
"In the study,middle ageto elderly participants reduced their salt intake by about one teaspoon a day compared with their usual diet. The result was a decline in systolic blood pressure by about 6 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg), which is comparable to the effect produced by a commonly utili...
Glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are both optic neurodegenerative diseases (OND) and are leading causes of irreversible vision impairment and blindness in seniors [1,2,3]. An analysis by Tham et al. estimated the worldwide number of people with glaucoma to be 76 million, pr...