The new guidelines encourage patients to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption entirely, compared with the old guidelines. For people who do want to drink alcohol, the new guidelines recommend that ...

To read your blood pressure measurements, it's important to know what's considered hypertension, and when you should seek ...

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.

As per Apple, the new hypertension detection feature on the Apple Watch "works passively in the background" and assesses ...

A new Apple Watch feature passively analyzes optical heart sensor data during waking hours to flag 'possible hypertension' ...

• Blood pressure-lowering medications lower the chance of death and probably reduce heart attacks and strokes in people with hypertension (high blood pressure) 60 years of age or older. • There may be ...