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Your Standing Blood Pressure May Affect Your Heart Risk

Michael Hunter, MD
BeingWell
Published in
4 min readMar 24, 2022

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DID YOU KNOW WHEN YOU STAND, your blood pressure usually falls slightly? What does it mean if your blood pressure rises when you stand up? A new study suggests that there can be long-term implications of such a change.

Today, we turn to a recent study examining differences in blood pressure readings in young to middle-aged individuals. The investigators checked these…

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Michael Hunter, MD
BeingWell

I have degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Penn. I am a radiation oncologist in the Seattle area. You may find me regularly posting at www.newcancerinfo.com