Hypertension, for a long time, has been thought to be a concern for older adults, from middle-aged to elderly people but now, even the youth are affected, with hypertension cases seeing a sharp uptick ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure is one of the most common health problems in adults but now sounds alarming as the rates ...

Government Commissioned Report Concludes Exposure to Agent Orange May Be Linked to Development of Hypertension in US Vietnam Veterans Herbicides were sprayed by the US military over Vietnam between ...

Nearly half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, a condition that increases the risk of heart disease and stroke – two leading causes of death. But about 20% of people with hypertension have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Social determinants of health such as education, income and socialization were tied to risk for ...

A kinesiology professor has found that differences in the way African-American cells respond to inflammation could be a cause of higher rates of hypertension among this group. A key difference in the ...

High blood pressure, which is also called hypertension, increases your risk of developing many serious health problems. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), high blood pressure can lead ...

Mar. 23 -- TUESDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- Higher rates of diabetes and hypertension could be driving the especially high rate of heart failure among American blacks, a new study finds. The ...

If your blood pressure stays high despite healthy habits and multiple medications, you may be dealing with resistant hypertension. Doctors reveal why undiagnosed sleep apnea is often the missing link, ...

The aim of this study was to explore and compare explanatory models (EMs) of hypertension in native-Dutch, first-generation Ghanaian and African-Surinamese (Surinamese) hypertensives in Amsterdam, the ...

The effect of dietary composition on blood pressure is a subject of public health importance. We studied the effect of different levels of dietary sodium, in conjunction with the Dietary Approaches to ...

In important news this month, the large Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET) was stopped early once the results in the "very elderly" subjects became clear; conversely, a post-hoc ...