The Conversation reports on research that even though most Americans don't know the normal or healthy range for blood ...

Stunning as it may sound, nearly half of Americans ages 20 years and up—or more than 122 million people—have high blood ...

Adding more potassium to your diet could be an easier, more effective way to lower blood pressure than cutting salt alone, ...

The American Heart Association is urging everyone to know the warning signs or a stroke and the F.A.S.T steps to take to ...

Clots are treated with blood thinners. But the length of treatment depends on the causes behind a clot, which is categorized ...

Most people think of heart attacks as debilitating pain in the chest. However, that's not always the case, especially for women, and missing the signs can be a matter of life and death. Although heart ...

American Stroke Month, the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, is raising awareness nationwide that stroke is largely preventable, treatable and beatable.

In the present study, 1,595 adolescents drawn from the University of Bristol's Children of the 90s cohort were followed up from age 17 until 24 years. To assess the prevalence of prediabetes, which ...

Persistently high blood sugar and insulin resistance significantly increased the risk of worsening functional and structural ...

Every year, approximately 800,000 people in the U.S. have a stroke[1], however, as many as 80% may be preventable with ...

Experts have identified three food items that can aid in reducing blood pressure for those with ... participants and was published in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension ...