For accurate readings, check your blood pressure twice a day, take five minutes to relax, and make sure you're following your monitor's directions.

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Sodium affects the heart's muscle function over time, straining the pumping capacity. Find out which diet helps to undo the damage of high-sodium intake. Excess salt negatively impacts heart health.

Your systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure describe the pressure on your arteries at different points in your heart beat.

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Every dinner at 65-year-old Minh’s home is a nostalgic feast, with staples like pickled eggplant and braised fish. "I eat pickled vegetables almost every day, and in winter I add pickled kohlrabi and ...

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A new drug may help people with high blood pressure that does not respond to existing medications. The results of a large clinical trial, published August 30 in the New England Journal of Medicine, ...