For decades, we were told that a blood pressure reading below 120/80 mm Hg was the gold standard for normal. Readings above this were often tolerated unless they crossed 140/90 mm Hg. However, the ...

Lower blood pressure may help protect older adults against heart attacks, strokes and heart failure, but the safest target is ...

Is 140/90 normal blood pressure at age 60? A cardiologist explains what the reading means, why one reading is not enough, how ...

The nation’s heart experts tightened the guidelines for high blood pressure, a change that will sharply increase the number of U.S. adults considered hypertensive in the hope that they, and their ...

The number doctors use to demarcate hypertension keeps going down, a trend applauded by many experts, who point to studies linking high blood pressure and dementia. By Paula Span The patient initially ...

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