LONDON -- Blood pressure readings that spike and drop may be more dangerous than those that stay consistently high, researchers say. Friday, March 12, 2010.

LONDON - Extremely variable blood pressure, and not just high blood pressure, can greatly increase a person's risk of stroke, researchers have said.

Challenging established medical wisdom about blood pressure and stroke, new British research suggests that extremely variable blood pressure, and not just high blood pressure, can greatly increase a person's risk of stroke.

Results of a new study suggest that people with consistently high blood pressure may actually be at less of a risk of stroke than those people whose blood pressure tends to fluctuate. The study followed up to 2000 patients who had ...

“Some people have very stable hypertension, in which case simple hypertension is all that matters, but variability and episodic hypertension is very common and matters much more than mean blood pressure in some patients,” said Dr. Peter ...

People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday.

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People with variable blood pressure at stroke risk.

For years, medical doctors focused primarily on diastolic blood pressure – which is the bottom number in a blood pressure impression. The conjecture was that the body could tolerate intermittent increases in systolic blood pressure, ...

"With this new research it is now important that the clinical guidelines about treating high blood pressure are reviewed. In the meantime we urge GPs to read this research to help them prescribe the best treatment for people at risk of ...