The next time you get your blood pressure checked, expect your medical provider to be a little more aggressive about high ...

Targeting blood pressure below 120 mm Hg reduces the risk of heart attack, stroke, and heart failure more than higher goals.

A study published Wednesday looking at how blood pressure measurements change in men and women as they age offers new insights into why the two sexes experience heart disease in different ways ...

Researchers made use of 4 community cohort studies on cardiovascular disease providing 144,599 blood pressure measurements from 32,833 individuals (54% women) over a 43 year period spanning the ages 5 ...

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology's new guidelines for 2025 emphasize early intervention.

But half of them -- women -- face unique challenges in controlling their blood pressure. For instance, women with high blood pressure are more likely to be obese and have high cholesterol levels.

These increases in arterial stiffening were seen more in women than men ... that measures how quickly a wave of blood pressure travels between the carotid artery (in the neck) and femoral arteries (in ...

Doctors may soon have a new way to treat high blood pressure, even among people for whom medicines haven’t worked well in the past.

The improved Finapres apparatus, known as the Fino-meter, measures finger blood pressure noninvasively on a beat-to-beat basis and gives waveform measurements similar to intra-arterial recordings ...

Nearly half of a cohort of female athletes at two U.S. universities were found to have higher than normal blood pressure levels, according to research presented at the American College of ...

Americans eat too much salt, but the influence of dietary sodium is especially noticeable in women, whose blood pressure may become more salt sensitive in their 40s or 50s. Primary care providers ...