A growing body of research suggests that high blood pressure, or hypertension, affects men and women in different ways. Emerging research suggests that women may have an increased risk of heart attack ...

Americans eat too much salt, but the influence of dietary sodium is especially noticeable in women, whose blood pressure may become more salt sensitive in their 40s or 50s. Primary care providers ...

Failing to take blood pressure measurements at the doctor's office, using incorrect techniques, and a lack of validated automated blood pressure measurement devices are three problems that converge to ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biospectal SA, the remote patient monitoring and biosensing software company, today announced the publication of global health study results published in Nature ...

Scientists from the University of Exeter has developed a precise method to interpret ankle blood pressure readings—an ...

Black women face a significantly higher risk of developing high blood pressure (hypertension) in their childbearing years, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

Compared with women who never got COVID-19, women who recovered from a mild case had “older,” stiffer, and less-efficient blood vessels. COVID infection didn’t seem to have an effect on blood vessel ...