AS WOMEN AGE, THE CHANCES OF DEVELOPING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE INCREASES, EVEN AMONG THOSE WITH HEALTHY LIFESTYLES AND WHO PREVIOUSLY HAD LOW BLOOD PRESSURE. THE TRICKY PART IS YOU MAY NOT EVEN KNOW. I’D ...

DECADES. I HAD GONE FOR A ROUTINE CHECKUP AND THE DOCTOR SAID, MY PRESSURE WAS VERY HIGH AND REFERRED ME TO A PRIMARY CARE DOCTOR FOR TREATMENT. THAT WAS AROUND 25 YEARS AGO. SINCE THEN, BARBARA ...

Dear Amy: I’m a man and getting mixed responses from the women in my life over a recent visit to my doctor for a medical exam. It is not the first time this has happened, but it continues to be an ...

In a study of 14,384 patients with hypertension presenting to primary care centers, women and men received similar numbers of antihypertensive medications but different dosages and types, with women ...

Women aged around 42 years with elevated blood pressure (BP) or hypertension faced a substantially higher risk for increased arterial stiffness nearly three decades later — a pattern not seen in men ...