Variable Blood Pressure Now Seen As Stroke Risk

Until now, most health experts considered occasional spikes in a person’s blood pressure to be no big deal. That conviction is changing quickly, thanks to a Swedish finding that people with fluctuating blood pressure readings had the
greatest risk of future stroke regardless of what their average blood
pressure reading was. The BBC reports that a review of previous trials also found
that the differences in effectiveness of several blood pressure drugs
could be explained by how well they kept blood pressure on an even
keel.

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