Both Blood Pressure Numbers Matter, New Study Finds

Decades of advice are overturned, doubling the number of numbers to worry about.

Robert Roy Britt
3 min readJul 18, 2019

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As if understanding blood pressure wasn’t confusing enough, a new study suggests doctors and patients need to relearn half of what had been the common wisdom. For decades, health professionals have instructed people to worry about the upper…

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Robert Roy Britt

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB