High Blood Pressure

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One thing I’ve learned in my mostly unsuccessful lifelong quest to get enough sleep is that nothing helps more than feeling under pressure to do so. So learning in McKnight’s that extra sleep reduced...

“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.

A blood pressure dip reached its lowest point three hours after older study participants consumed oil extracts or smoked cannabis. Pain relief, typically the reason for taking the drug, may have contributed...

High blood pressure is tied to lower global cognitive and memory test scores, a long-term study shows.

Women with fewer social ties have higher odds of hypertension, researchers say. In contrast, men with a large social network are more likely to develop high blood pressure.

Healthcare providers are being called on to help make hypertension control a national public health priority. The Surgeon General’s office has released a new document outlining goals and strategies.

In a surprise to researchers, few professionals surveyed across 10 medical centers reported using out-of-office blood pressure monitoring to screen for and diagnose hypertension.