“We found that people with blood pressure below 130 have a lower risk of dying from heart disease and stroke,” senior ...

Blood pressure is measured in two numbers: systolic and diastolic. The top number is the systolic blood pressure, which measures the pressure caused by the heart contracting and squeezing out blood.

Normal blood pressure is defined as less than 120 systolic pressure and less than 80 diastolic. Stage 1 high blood pressure is when systolic is 130 to 139 or diastolic is 80 to 89. Stage 2 ...

People with high blood pressure will have a systolic reading of 130 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) or above or a diastolic reading of 80 mm Hg or higher. Systolic blood pressure is the pressure ...

Elevated systolic blood pressure is even more associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than diastolic blood pressure. Treatment of systolic hypertension in the elderly should be ...

government officials issued revised blood pressure guidelines that included a new category: prehypertension. Anyone with a systolic (top number) reading of 120 or over, or a diastolic (bottom ...

About 85% of seniors treated to a target blood pressure of 120 systolic (the top number in a blood pressure reading) had a positive net benefit from such tight control, researchers reported.