People with high blood pressure should monitor it regularly at home to get truer readings than those sometimes taken in a doctor’s office and better manage the condition, experts urged…

People with hypertension should routinely monitor their blood pressure at home to help manage the disease, according to a new joint scientific statement from the American Heart Association,…

Listening to half an hour of music each day may significantly lower your blood pressure, according to research reported at the American Society of Hypertension meeting in New Orleans…

Heavy drinking causes high blood pressure, stiff arteries and rigid heart muscles in men and enlarged hearts in women, boosting their risk of having heart attacks and strokes, researchers said…

Data unveiled today at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2008) revealed for the first time that people with prehypertension who are…

High blood pressure and high cholesterol levels appear to be risk factors for retinal vein occlusion, a condition that causes vision loss, according to a…

Focused and inexpensive measures improved high blood pressure control and treatment among veterans, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association’s 9th Scientific Forum on…

Even when their blood pressure is kept strictly under control with the best available medicine, African-American patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) continue to…

Some hypertensive patients may need to take higher doses of medication during winter months to control their high blood pressure, a Mexican study suggests. The findings were presented…

Adolescents with elevated blood pressure can lower their blood pressure and improve their nutrient intake by following a teen version of the so-called DASH diet, results of a new study suggest.

People who are taking three or more drugs and still have high blood pressure have a condition known as resistant hypertension that may require special treatment, the American Heart…

Many men who receive microwave therapy for enlarged prostates experience significant surges in blood pressure that could raise their risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to…

Yale University researchers report today in the journal Nature Genetics that they have discovered that rare genetic variants can be associated with a dramatically lower…

Changes in kidney function appear to influence the occurrence of high blood pressure in individuals without overt kidney or cardiovascular disease, according to a report in the Annals of…

Red wine has been shown to protect people from heart disease, even when they follow a diet high in saturated fat, and the healing powers…

Lowering the blood pressure of elderly patients could cut their total mortality by a fifth and their rate of cardiovascular events by a third, according…

Xenical, a fat blocker sold by Roche Holding AG, helped people with high blood pressure (hypertension) to lower it, while Meridia, an appetite suppressant sold by Abbott Laboratories, did not, European…

Adults with hypertension may be able to lower their weight and their blood pressure by following a weight-loss diet or using the medication orlistat, according to a meta-analysis of…

Marriage really can be a matter of the heart with a U.S. study finding that happily married couples have lower blood pressure than single people.

Professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad, of…

Transcendental Meditation is an effective treatment for controlling high blood pressure with the added benefit of bypassing possible side effects and hazards of anti-hypertension drugs, according to a new meta-analysis conducted…

A vaccine appears to be safe and effective in lowering blood pressure in people with mild-to-moderate hypertension (high blood pressure), according to results of a study reported in The Lancet…

Previous observational studies have reported that heavy alcohol intake is a risk factor for hypertension but such studies may be confounded by factors such as diet, smoking,…

Women who regularly consume low-fat milk or yogurt may have a lower risk of developing high blood pressure, new research suggests.

In a study of nearly 29,000 U.S. women age…

A protein that is an early indicator of kidney dysfunction in adults may predict hypertension in black adolescents, Medical College of Georgia researchers have found.

“Microalbuminuria,…

Early and intensive lowering of high blood pressure has shown promising effects in stroke patients, according to results of a new stroke study by The George Institute for International…