and within your own age cohort. A chart can help as you monitor your blood pressure (BP), which is key to maintaining health, especially for older adults. Blood pressure measures the force pressed ...

This is called "primary" or "essential" hypertension. If your high blood pressure is due to non-modifiable factors, you may not be able to stop taking your medication. This is especially true as you ...

1, 2024 — High blood pressure affects about 45% of U.S. adults. In the 1970s, only about 50% of patients were aware of their hypertension. Today, 54% are aware of their high blood pressure ...

"Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is becoming more common among young adults, even those as young as 30. This is a worrying trend because high blood pressure can lead to serious health ...

Therefore, we leverage twin- and sibling-based comparison designs to determine whether placental pathology is associated with offspring blood pressure at age 7 while mitigating major sources of ...

Your blood-pressure reading probably isn’t as accurate as you think. More often than not, patients and even nurses and doctors are skipping steps that help paint an accurate portrait of someone ...

a family history of varicose veins being female older age pressure on the abdomen, which may be due to: Pregnant people have much more blood in their bodies, which places extra pressure on the ...

That evening cocktail might be even more dangerous than drinkers bargained for — if they suffer from food allergies. A ...

Now, in a study involving over 225,000 participants, researchers at King’s College London have found a way to read this hidden timekeeper through the chemical signatures in your blood ... age, ...

I turn 60 years old and I am the lowest weight I’ve been in three decades, when I had just given birth to my last biological ...

Stanford Medicine researchers trained a large language model to read medical charts, looking for signs that kids with ADHD received the right follow-up care when using new medications.