Credit: CC0 Public Domain In several new studies published in Brain and Behavior and others, researchers found many people with high blood pressure may need to get more treatment. The study findings are from the University of Gothenburg. One author is Johan-Emil Bager. High blood pressure is the leading treatable

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from The Australian National University and elsewhere, researchers found people with elevated blood pressure that falls within the normal recommended range are at risk of accelerated brain aging. They found participants with high blood pressure had older and therefore less healthy brains, increasing their

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain High blood pressure is the world’s leading killer but poor rates of blood pressure control remain common. In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers found a new strategy where patients are started on a pill containing four medicines, each at a quarter of their

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than half of adults between the ages of 50 and 80 have a health condition that puts them at high risk of major health emergencies if they don’t keep their blood pressure under control. But in a new finding from the University of Michigan, researchers

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Nearly 34 million Americans have blood pressure that’s still too high even though they take medicine to control it. In a new study from the University of Michigan, researchers found a way to help these people and their doctors decide whether to increase the dose of one of

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain What happens when you hit a high blood pressure plateau? You’ve made lifestyle changes. You’re taking a diuretic and at least two other blood pressure medicines. But your blood pressure still isn’t budging. This is called resistant hypertension. Simply put, it means that your high blood

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent study published in BMJ Open Respiratory Research, researchers found that people living with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition that occurs when a person’s airway becomes blocked while they are asleep, are twice as likely to experience sudden death. They also found that

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent study published in Circulation, researchers found no evidence that diastolic blood pressure—the bottom reading on a blood pressure test—can be harmful to patients when reduced to levels that were previously considered to be too low. The finding may change how doctors treat some

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers found blood pressure-lowering medication can prevent serious health conditions such as strokes, heart failure and heart attacks even in adults with normal blood pressure. They found the beneficial effects of treatment were similar regardless of the starting

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new study from Rutgers University, researchers found younger men and older women are more likely to have high blood pressure that’s uncontrolled despite taking medications. They found women ages 70 and older and men younger than age 50 may benefit from more frequent blood

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