Blood pressure readings are a standard part of even the most basic health checks. Now some researchers are suggesting that clinicians should change how they view diastolic blood pressure readings.

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 blood out of the heart to the arteries, which ...

A new technology has been developed that enables cuffless noninvasive blood pressure monitoring by using ultrasonic to track ...

The combination of low diastolic blood pressure and high IOP in patients with moderate to advanced glaucoma was associated with faster ganglion cell complex thinning rates, according to a study. A ...

The American Heart Association and the American the College of Cardiology in 2025 issued guidelines to help reduce ...

Both eating plans are backed by science for heart health—but experts say one has a slight edge for lowering blood pressure, ...

Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is an antioxidant found in foods and in supplement form. Alpha-lipoic acid benefits might include ...

Researchers found no evidence that diastolic blood pressure - the bottom reading on a test - can be harmful to patients when reduced to levels that were previously considered to be too low. New ...

Shuchi Patel, MD: Good afternoon, Dr. Ruth Williams. Thank you so much for taking the time to have a discussion with us regarding a topic that is of emerging interest. Today we're going to talk about ...

Decline in brain function often occurs as people age. And people often worry that this declining brain function is an inevitable part of growing old and will lead to dementia, but it is not. Many ...

New research led by a professor at NUI Galway is set to change how doctors treat some patients with high blood pressure - a condition that affects more than one in four men and one in five women. The ...