But if your blood pressure becomes too high, known as hypertension, it can be dangerous. Doctors often call it the “silent ...

Quitting an energy drink habit helped a man lower his blood pressure when medicine could not. He was drinking eight energy ...

Blood pressure spikes, or hypertensive crises, hospitalizations nearly doubled in the U.S. from 2002 to 2014, a study published Jan. 27 in the Journal of the American Heart Association found.

Hypertensive crises consist of hypertensive emergencies and urgencies. With hypertensive emergencies, there is evidence of acute end-organ damage in the setting of an elevated blood pressure. With ...

High blood pressure (hypertension) can be caused by a variety of factors, including your lifestyle, medical conditions, ...

The new guidelines also emphasize the fact that diet can have a major impact on blood pressure. They recommend that all ...

The number of people hospitalized for a hypertensive crisis -- when blood pressure increases so much it can cause a heart attack, stroke or other sudden cardiovascular event -- more than doubled from ...

A 47-year-old Vietnamese man died suddenly after, trusting advice found on social media, he stopped taking blood pressure ...

I would like to inquire about the use of the sublingual nifedipine for patients with hypertensive urgency or emergency. It has been suggested that the drug type should be avoided during a hypertensive ...

Hospitalizations related to hypertensive crisis represented 0.16% of all admissions for women in 2002 but 0.34% in 2014. The investigators estimated that from 2002 to 2014, there were 918,392 ...

New medical insights reveal that ignoring hypertension in your 30s and 40s may lock in a future of dementia, as stiffened arteries physically starve brain cells of oxygen.