A new study reveals that Americans over the age of 55 have a 42 percent chance of developing dementia, a figure more than ...

Breathing exercises can temporarily lower your blood pressure and heart rate by activating the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is part of the parasympathetic nervous system, sending signals to and from ...

Hypotension is low blood pressure. When you have hypotension, the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of your blood vessels is lower than it should be. Blood pressure below 90/60 mm Hg is ...

High blood pressure and obesity often go hand in hand, and the American Heart Association points out that obesity can raise your risk for heart disease. However, research isn’t clear on whether ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess Tanner staging (breast and pubic hair development) and its relationship to measures of body composition, blood pressure, and fasting insulin and glucose in young black girls.

Several key mistakes could throw off the accuracy of blood pressure readings for people who take them at home. The average "normal" blood pressure is 120/80, according to the American Heart ...

Federal authorities have arrested Jason Carney, an American who ran a charity to feed African orphans and brokered adoptions in Malawi for U.S. clients. Carney was detained Friday in Arkansas in ...

A big factor is uncontrolled high blood pressure, which is significantly more prevalent in Chicago’s African American population than among other groups. Josh Neufeld is using comics journalism ...

“I first visited Ghana in 2015. From then on, I knew this is a place that I wanted to be and a place where I wanted to show other diasporans, African-Americans, that we have a place where we ...

Hypertension is a compelling disease process that disproportionately affects African Americans. It is the single largest risk factor for cardiovascular disease in African Americans. The end organ ...