Keeping blood pressure at a healthy level becomes more important as people get older. Blood pressure is the force created ...

Systolic pressure measures arterial pressure when the heart contracts, with normal readings less than 120 mmHg. Diastolic pressure measures arterial pressure when the heart relaxes, with normal ...

Efforts are advancing to track this silent killer that lurks without symptoms with standards that have changed to flag more for monitoring.

The number doctors use to demarcate hypertension keeps going down, a trend applauded by many experts, who point to studies linking high blood pressure and dementia. By Paula Span The patient initially ...