Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood exerts on the blood vessels in your body. As your heart beats, it contracts and relaxes, pushing ...

Systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressures (MAP) are the 3 BP values typically reported; to interpret a BP reading, all 3 must be evaluated. Systolic and diastolic BP are the pressures at the ...

If you’re one of the 120 million American adults with high blood pressure, there are numerous steps you can take to lower it, including reducing the amount of salt you eat. “Sodium is a major ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with CKD, isolated diastolic hypertension did not increase risk of adverse cardiovascular and kidney ...

In a recent prospective study published in nature's Scientific Reports, researchers performed a cross-sectional analysis of the general population of Hamburg City, Germany. They examined how coffee ...

It is a common perception that approximately 50% of heart failure (HF) patients present with a normal or near-normal left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction ("HF with preserved systolic function"), ...

A recent study reveals that arm position significantly impacts blood pressure readings. Allowing the arm to hang freely can falsely elevate systolic a ...

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology issued their first new set of guidelines to help minimize hypertension since 2017. The new guidelines used by clinicians ...

You may want to sit down for this—on the wall, that is. If you are looking for the single best set of exercises to lower your high blood pressure, isometric exercises such as wall sits and planks may ...