High blood pressure can cause heart disease by damaging your blood vessels. Hypertension increases the risk of stroke because ...

Aerobic exercise, which strengthens your heart so it can pump with less effort, was the second-most-effective intervention, after the DASH diet. Isometric resistance exercise — when you contract ...

Your kidneys work as your body’s natural filtration system, cleaning your blood day and night. But this vital work depends heavily on one critical factor: your blood pressure. Medical experts warn ...

But the study found 61% of people with high blood pressure do not take medication that would help control it. This finding ...

Q: My blood pressure is a little high. My doctor is making me do constant at-home testing, take medication and check in with a nutritionist. Is it all necessary? -- Claire T., Pittsburgh ...

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. Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made by AstraZeneca, showed ...

For millions of people across the country, hypertension silently creeps through their daily lives, raising the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other life-threatening complications. Lower your blood ...