Newswise — By analyzing medical records gathered over three decades on more than 11,000 Americans participating in a federally funded study, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have more ...

Blood pressure consists of two numbers. Systolic pressure, the force exerted on blood vessels when the heart beats, is the upper number. Diastolic pressure, the force exerted when the heart is at rest ...

Blood pressure readings are a standard part of even the most basic health checks. Now some researchers are suggesting that clinicians should change how they view diastolic blood pressure readings.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The combination of low diastolic blood pressure and high IOP in patients with moderate to advanced glaucoma was ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The researchers found that, compared with patients who had diastolic BP between 80 mm Hg and 89 mm Hg at ...

Very low diastolic blood pressure (DBP) is associated with an increased risk of subclinical myocardial damage, particularly among individuals with diastolic pressures less than 60 mm Hg, according to ...

(HealthDay)—Low diastolic blood pressure (DBP) is associated with subclinical myocardial damage and coronary heart disease (CHD) events, according to a study published online Aug. 30 in the Journal of ...

Systolic pressure measures arterial pressure when the heart contracts, with normal readings less than 120 mmHg. Diastolic pressure measures arterial pressure when the heart relaxes, with normal ...

The researchers caution that their findings cannot prove that very low diastolic blood pressure -- a measure of pressure in arteries between heartbeats when the heart is resting and also the "lower" ...

People with a genetic predisposition to low diastolic blood pressure don’t have an excess risk of MI and other cardiovascular events, providing insight into what the “J-curve” seen in prior ...

If you have a low diastolic pressure, it means you have a low coronary artery pressure, and that means your heart is going to lack blood and oxygen. That is what we call ischemia, and that kind of ...