Low blood pressure can make you feel dizzy. It can happen after eating, when standing up, due to shock or stress, with certain health conditions, and pregnancy. Your blood pushes against your ...

Longer lasting low blood pressure may result from a temporary issue, a chronic illness, or an emergency, such as septic shock. Anyone who has persistent symptoms of low blood pressure should ...

Severe hypotension causing shock: In this type of hypotension, the BP drops to dangerously low levels. The essential organs do not get enough oxygen and nutrients to function, and the patient may ...

Medically reviewed by Josephine Hessert, DO A sudden drop in blood pressure can occur for any number of reasons. Hypotension, or low blood pressure, means that vital organs may not be getting enough ...

One of the life-threatening complications of STEMI is cardiogenic shock during which hypotension is present from low cardiac output. This results in end-organ hypoperfusion and potentially multi ...

Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Healthcare providers consider low blood pressure (hypotension)—a reading below 90/60 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg)—benign, or not harmful, because it rarely ...