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4 days ago · Your healthcare professional can tell you your blood pressure results right away after the test. Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). In general, hypertension is a blood pressure reading of 130/80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) or higher.
5 days ago · High blood pressure (or hypertension) is usually diagnosed if your blood pressure is regularly above 140/90 mmHg. Causes of high blood pressure. You may be more at risk from high blood pressure if you: eat a high-fat diet. eat a high-salt diet. don’t exercise. are overweight. smoke. drink too much alcohol. are stressed. take some recreational drugs
2 days ago · Hypertension is the most significant risk factor for cardiovascular mortality, and World Hypertension Day 2024 featured many activities to improve blood pressure control around the world ...
5 days ago · Hypertension remains a major problem worldwide, especially across the Asia-Pacific region. According to The NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, which analysed data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30–79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure (BP) and BP treatment, several countries in the Asia-Pacific region report the highest prevalence rates of ...
2 days ago · The ACC and the AHA have released a new guideline on hypertension with a new definition that calls 130 to 139 mm Hg systolic and or 80 to 89 mm Hg stage 1 hypertension.
3 days ago · Essential hypertension is characterized by a raised diastolic and mean arterial pressure, whereas ISH is distinguished by a raised systolic pressure with a relatively normal diastolic pressure. It is noteworthy that blood pressure varies considerably throughout the arterial tree.
4 days ago · With this novel method of ARDN and the conventional method of TRDN, we demonstrated the role of renal nerves in the development of hypertension using young stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive...
