The Latest Breaking News from High Blood Pressure

The higher your blood pressure is, the more often you need to have it checked

Researchers said they have found ‘conclusive evidence’ that taking BP medicine in the evening is no better than taking it in the morning.

The study revealed that phenols and parabens could raise the risk of developing high blood pressure by 57%, and the risk is particularly high between 24 and 28 weeks of gestation.

South Korea's spy agency says that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has regained weight and suffers obesity-related health problems including high blood pressure and diabetes

A Michigan Medicine study found that high systolic blood pressure (the top number on the blood pressure reading and how hard the heart pumps blood to the arteries) increases the risk of the two most common types of strokes over time. Read further on Dynamite News:

About one-third of adults have high blood pressure. Two-thirds of these have uncontrolled high blood pressure.

At least one in 20 people who are pregnant develop a scary complication called preeclampsia, a high blood pressure disorder that kills 70,000 women and 500,000 babies worldwide every year

High blood pressure is a “silent killer” because the symptoms often don’t show until the person develops complications such as stroke or heart attack. It is pervasive in Indonesia and the prevalence is on the rise.

World Hypertension Day, on May 17, must spotlight that point that the proven, bigger, and preventable risk factor for heart attack and brain stroke, i.e., hypertension, rarely gets due attention