Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Blood pressure is the amount of pressure that your blood exerts on the blood vessels in your body. As your heart beats, it contracts and relaxes, pushing ...

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

The new guidelines encourage patients to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption entirely, compared with the old guidelines.

Angela Ryan Lee, MD, FACC, is a board-certified cardiology and internal medicine physician. She also holds board certifications from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the National Board ...

Static isometric exercises—the sort that involve engaging muscles without movement, such as wall sits and planks—are best for lowering blood pressure, finds a pooled data analysis of the available ...

What the researchers found was surprising. Even when a person’s diastolic pressure went as low as 50 mmHg, there was no sign ...

July 5, 2005 -- Soy protein supplements can significantly reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients, according to the results of a randomized, double-blind study published in the July 5 issue of ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) means your heart can’t pump enough blood to keep up with your body’s needs. Problems can emerge when not enough oxygen-rich blood gets pumped back out to the organs. CHF ...