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 . The siblings of women who had hypertension during pregnancy also face an increased risk of hypertension. High ...

Most people living with high blood pressure have heard the same short list of causes: too much salt, too little exercise, ...

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 ...

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 ...

COVID-19 may raise blood pressure or trigger hypertension. Research suggests that the pandemic generally correlated with a widespread rise in blood pressure, perhaps due in part to increased stress.

African-Americans have more rigidity of the aorta, the major artery supplying oxygen-rich blood to the body, than Caucasians and Hispanics, according to a study. African-Americans have more rigidity ...

Although the pathogenesis of LVH in hypertensive humans is quite complex due to the concurrent contribution of several haemodynamic and nonhaemodynamic factors, 2 it is still uncertain which of the ...

Pulmonary hypertension means high blood pressure in the arteries between the heart and lungs. The World Health Organization (WHO) divides pulmonary hypertension into five categories based on its cause ...

Introduction: Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in adulthood. Nephron number reduction has been proposed as a key ...