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Systolic hypertension | |
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Specialty | Cardiology |
In medicine, systolic hypertension is defined as an elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP).[1] If the systolic blood pressure is elevated (>140) with a normal (<90) diastolic blood pressure (DBP), it is called isolated systolic hypertension.[2] Eighty percent of people with systolic hypertension are over the age of 65 years old.[3] Isolated systolic hypertension is a specific type of widened (or high) pulse pressure.