There’s a bias towards older people because doctors are concerned that they won’t do well on these lower blood pressures,” ...

Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can help lower blood pressure, while foods high in saturated fat may worsen it.

About half of all U.S. adults have high blood pressure – and about 25.5% of the working-age Americans in a typical state ...

Treatment options are available for those diagnosed with high blood pressure, with most medications taken as daily tablets. But there are also non-pharmaceutical methods to improve high blood ...

The differences are enough to move people between blood pressure ranges that may result in being prescribed medication. The findings suggest that high blood pressure is often overdiagnosed.

People with diabetes who took diuretics and alpha blockers had a higher risk for worsening frailty compared with those who ...

high blood pressure tends to run in families, suggesting that genetics plays a role. If you eat foods high in salt, or use medications like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (such as ibuprofen ...

"Knowing how vascular cells change their identity could help develop new medications to treat high blood pressure and vascular diseases." Gomez and his collaborator Maria Luisa S. Sequeira-Lopez ...

A soon-to-be-published study analyzed more than 6 million patient records to help support a growing link between heart and ...

The study confirms that arm position during BP measurement makes a "huge difference" in the accuracy of the results.

Records from nearly 30,000 nursing home residents indicate that blood pressure medications more than double ... of the study While many patients have high enough blood pressure that the benefits ...

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a common condition in older adults, with nearly two-thirds of people over 60 ...