High Blood Pressure

Ambulatory monitoring may catch dangerous blood pressure changes that present in atypical ways and may not be reported by long-term care residents with dementia, investigators have found.

Stroke risk was reduced by 14% and premature mortality dropped by 12% over 5 years in a large-scale study, researchers from the George Institute for Global Health report.

Adults who eat more foods rich in flavonoids, such as berries, red wine and chocolate, have lower systolic blood pressure levels and may have a healthier gut as well, investigators say.

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Growing evidence suggests that statin therapy is not associated with incident dementia, mild cognitive impairment or decline in individual cognition domains. Meanwhile, a second study finds that antihypertensives...

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“I didn’t expect the numbers to be so dismal,” says the author of a study of stroke survivors from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

An estimated 24 million Americans with chronic kidney disease are candidates for intensive blood pressure control under new guidelines from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes, say Johns Hopkins...

The upper limit of systolic blood pressure is 110 mm Hg in women compared to 120 mm Hg in men, physician-researchers say. It’s a distinction not reflected in clinical guidelines.