A woman who works as a medical assistant instructor posted a video on TikTok and claimed that most people are getting their ...

A new study finds that the way your arm is positioned during a blood pressure reading can skew measurements, sometimes ...

As individuals age, various physiological changes occur in the body, and blood pressure is no exception. Maintaining healthy ...

Arteries get stiffer, causing blood pressure to go up,” they add. That’s true even for very health and heart-conscious people ...

"Our findings suggest that early diagnosis and sustained treatment of high blood pressure over time are critical to prevent ...

That's especially true for people with high blood pressure. Many over-the-counter (OTC) painkillers can push your blood pressure higher. That can be dangerous. Since high blood pressure has no ...

Regardless of whether you’re at the doctor’s or at home—but especially with the latter—it’s important to know how you hold ...

Certain arm positions -- supported on a lap or hanging by the side of the body -- led to significant overestimation of blood pressure readings compared with standardized positioning, a randomized ...

The study found that lap support overestimated systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) by nearly ...

Using a blood pressure chart by age can help you interpret your results to see how they compare to the normal ranges across groups, and within your own age cohort. A chart can help as you monitor your ...