High Blood pressure, or hypertension is increasingly becoming a concern for children, not just adults. According to several experts, there has been an increase in hypertension cases in children ...

Children who lost enough weight to no longer be considered obese had similar reductions in risk, and also experienced a 60% ...

The medical director of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Healthy Weight Initiative is sharing prevention tips and how to help ...

About half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, a major risk for heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, even dementia.

A new study found a minor difference between blood pressure measurements taken in public spaces compared to those in private ...

Hypertension or high blood pressure is known as the "silent killer" because despite being one of the most common fatal conditions worldwide, most people are unaware they have the condition because ...

Nov. 21, 2024 — Scientists have discovered how long-term treatment of high blood pressure with commonly prescribed drugs can destroy the kidney's ability to filter and purify blood. The finding ...

High blood cholesterol and high blood pressure often work together to accelerate heart disease. There are many risk factors for high cholesterol, including conditions like type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a clinically-proven approach to treating children with obesity in which a health ...

Recent research found that regularly consuming dairy products may reduce blood pressure. But there is still debate over dairy ...