Low blood pressure means a reading of 90/60 mm Hg or lower and is not a cause for concern unless you experience symptoms like ...

Feeling lightheaded when you rise quickly is common, but frequent spells shouldn't be ignored. Doctors share simple ways to ...

Orthostatic hypotension, also known as postural hypotension, happens when blood vessels in the body fail to constrict (narrow) in response to gravity. This causes a decrease in blood pressure and ...

THERE is direct evidence that the postural hypotension attending primary autonomic insufficiency results from a failure of the sympathetic-nerve endings to release nor-epinephrine in response to a ...

PHOENIX, AZ — In the large sample of 40- to 60-year-old community-dwelling adults in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, those who had orthostatic (postural) hypotension were more ...

For most patients with hypertension, more aggressive blood pressure (BP) lowering does not increase risk for orthostatic hypotension (OH); on the contrary, it appears to lower the risk, a new ...

A new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that testing for the presence of orthostatic hypotension, a form of low blood pressure, be performed within one minute of standing after a person ...

As many elderly patients are not able to stand for several minutes, sitting orthostatic blood pressure (BP) measurements are sometimes used as an alternative. We aimed to investigate the difference in ...

November 27, 2001 -- Bethesda, Md. — The American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology, one of the 14 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Physiological Society (APS), ...

This evidence summary has included randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that have investigated the efficacy and safety of oral fludrocortisone for treating postural hypotension in adults. Cohort ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global orthostatic hypotension (OH) drugs market is expected to post a CAGR close to 8% during the period 2019-2023, according to the latest market research report by ...