Your systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure describe the pressure on your arteries at different points in your heart beat.

To read your blood pressure measurements, it's important to know what's considered hypertension, and when you should seek ...

The new guidelines encourage patients to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption entirely, compared with the old guidelines. For people who do want to drink alcohol, the new guidelines recommend that ...

Both systolic and diastolic hypertension are significant contributors to cardiovascular risk, regardless of the threshold used for hypertension, a large study of more than 1.3 million people shows.

Angela Ryan Lee, MD, FACC, is a board-certified cardiology and internal medicine physician. She also holds board certifications from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the National Board ...

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.

An S4 heart sound cannot be present during atrial fibrillation (atrial kick is required). An S3 heart sound cannot be present in the setting of severe mitral stenosis. An S3 heart sound can be present ...

July 5, 2005 -- Soy protein supplements can significantly reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients, according to the results of a randomized, double-blind study published in the July 5 issue of ...

For preliminary testing of feasibility of the procedure a Cournand needle was placed percutaneously in the femoral artery of an anesthetized dog and a cineangiogram was recorded at 60 frames per ...

Automatic Reply celebrates the pithy, surprising or otherwise amusing “out-of-office” email messages pinging around workplaces. In medicine, “diastole” refers to the phase of the heartbeat when the ...