In 'The Healing Power of Praying the Rosary,' Gary Jansen, author and executive editor at Loyola Press, likens the Rosary to ...

Library patrons can now borrow blood pressure kits like they would borrow books, thanks to a partnership between the American ...

Potassium helps to lower blood pressure, but modern diets often lack it. A simple solution is to replace some of the sodium in salt with potassium. Potassium-enriched salt tastes just like regular ...

A higher amount of sodium in the dialysis solution increases weight gain and hypertension (high blood pressure) between dialysis sessions, but reduces intradialytic hypotension. Conversely, a lower ...

Studies disagree on whether high blood pressure can cause headaches. However, headaches may be a symptom of a hypertensive crisis (extremely high blood pressure). High blood pressure, also known ...

What Do Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure Numbers Mean? When you check your blood pressure, you get two numbers. The first, or top, number, is called systolic blood pressure. The second ...

Dozens of different medications can help treat high blood pressure (hypertension). These medications are called antihypertensives and are divided into many different categories, each of which ...

To make a saltwater rinse for an oral blood blister, a person can: Use freshly boiled water or a sterile saline solution. Dissolve 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt and 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in 1 ...

Blood pressure medications are usually taken for life. However, some people can stop taking them by addressing those underlying causes of high blood pressure (hypertension) that can be changed, such ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In a brilliant new essay in Mosaic magazine, Rafi DeMogge explains why the ...

For many people, medications may be needed to treat high blood pressure, but for everyone making lifestyle changes can make a big difference. Keeping blood pressure in healthy ranges is important to ...

The 2023 European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) hypertension guidelines both emphasize proper blood pressure (BP) ...