Blood Pressure:In the medical field, blood pressure usually consists of two separate numbers. The top number is known as systolic blood pressure, and it represents the pressure inside the blood vessels when the heart is actively contracting. The bottom number is known as diastolic blood pressure,...
Low blood pressure mainly affects younger people, especially women. In contrast to hypertension (see above), there is only a need for action such as drug therapy in the case of hypotension if the patient’s symptoms cause increased suffering. However, since low blood pressure can also be cause...
"We are now pushed to rethink what we thought was a normal blood pressure that might keep a woman or a man safe from developingheartdisease or stroke," added Cheng, who also serves as director of Cardiovascular Population Sciences at the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center and is the Erik...
As the first blood pressure (BP) reference considering influence of height in China, national blood pressure reference for Chinese han children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years (CCBP) was issued in 2017. The current study aimed to observe the short-term trends in BP and prevalence of high...
High blood pressure (“hypertension“) is largely treatable with lifestyle and medications, but only slightly over half of women with high blood pressure have their condition under control says a recent study fromthe American Heart Association(ADA). So what is normal blood pressure for women?
64 Blood pressure in women six months after normal and hypertensive pregnancies – The P4 study: Long term consequences for mother and childdoi:10.1016/j.preghy.2016.08.065Introduction Arterial BP has a linear relationship with cardiovascular risk, even within the "normal" BP range. Women with ...
When a blood pressure reading is taken, two pressure levels are measured: systolic (the pressure during a heartbeat) and diastolic (the pressure between heartbeats). These measurements are typically recorded as one number over the other (e.g., 120/80 mmHg) with both values represented in mill...
Over the last several years, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has been established as a reproducible reference standard for the quantification of chamber volumes, function, and mass in the evaluation of various cardiac diseases [1]. Despite growing awareness of sex/gender and age-relat...
HIGH-NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE IS PARTICULARLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK FOR ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES IN WOMEN: THE HORDALAND HEALTH STUDY Hypertension is a major risk factor for acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Less is known about whether high-normal blood pressure (BP) carries a different risk fo...
All women gave their consent after being given oral and written information about the project. None of the terminations were for pathological reasons of the pregnancy or fetal abnormality. A total of 117 gonads was included in this study with age ranging from 6 to 10 post conceptional weeks (...