Every time you visit your doctor, one of the first things they do is take your blood pressure. Blood pressure is a crucial part of cardiovascular health and is one of the best ways for doctors to ...

Keeping one's blood pressure levels in the normal range is important. Blood pressure that's too high (hypertension) can cause severe headaches, blurred vision and may even lead to heart disease or ...

We all hear a lot about blood pressure, but depending on how often you take a trip to your doctor’s, you might not know what yours is. The term refers to “the strength with which your blood pushes on ...

Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries (vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of your body). Blood pressure is measured in two numbers. Systolic ...

“The earlier in life your blood pressure and cholesterol levels are higher, the more damage you’re accruing to your heart and vascular system,” says Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, a cardiologist and the ...

Children should be regularly screened for high blood pressure to prevent fatal midlife heart disease, experts have said. A new study has found a link between high blood pressure at the age of 7 and up ...