Lack of sleep doubles risk of high blood pressure in men over 70Lyndsay Buckland
Blood pressure is one of the most commonly used parameters toassess the health status of individuals. An abnormal blood pressure reading almost always suggests the most probable disorder that a person may be having. By definition, blood pressure is the amount of pressure exerted by the flowing bl...
An increase of systolic blood pressure by 10 mmHg and of diastolic blood pressure by 5 mmHg reduced the risk of falling by 9% (OR 0.91, 95% Cl 0.84-0.98) and 8% (OR 0.92, 95% Cl 0.85-0.99), respectively. In men, an increased risk of falls was observed in participants with low ...
Whatever the explanation, "the key message should be that there are major opportunities to improve control of blood pressure of men and women of all ages," said Fonarow, who was not involved in the study. Visaria agreed. "The main implications are that older women and yo...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government Thursday eased restrictions on blood donations from gay men and other key groups because of a drop in the nation's blood supply triggered by the coronavirus outbreak.
Blood pressure was classified (. Tab. 2) in accordance with the classi- fication of the European Society of Hy- pertension, which has also been adopt- ed by the German Hypertension Society ("Deutsche Hochdruckliga e. V."). Ac- cording to this, 13% of women and 18% of men ...
Thediastolic blood pressurein thesystemic circulationis about 80mmHg, which is enough pressure to raise a column of water by a height of over a metre. In other words, there is more than enough pressure to carry blood from the heart up to the head. However, in thepulmonary circulationthedia...
Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering Increases Cerebral Blood Flow in Older Subjects With Hypertension Firbank MJ, O'Brien JT, Blamire AM, Ford GA (2013) Intensive blood pressure lowering increases cerebral blood flow in older subjects with hypertension. ... D Tryambake,J He,MJ Firbank,... - 《...
blood pressure values of 100-109 mmHg (reference value: 100 mmHg), whereas this was only the case for men from 130-139 mmHg. In addition, the risk of stroke increased in women from a systolic blood pressure of 120 mmHg, while the same risk increased in men from 150 mmHg. Whether ...
Adiposity and blood pressure among 55 000 relatively lean rural adults in southwest of China X Chen1,2,7, H Du3,7, J Zhang1, X Chen4, G Luo4, X Que4, N Zhang2, Z Bian5, Y Guo5, L Li5,6,8, Z Chen3,8 and X Wu2,8 Obesity is a strong determinant of blood pressure. ...