Highlights: October is Menopause Awareness Month, and an estimated 6,000 women in the U.S. enter menopause every day. The ...

More than half of people who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital do not receive immediate CPR, underscoring the urgent need for more widespread knowledge of how to respond when every second ...

A modeling analysis of health data for 20 countries found that among preventive healthcare services, increasing control of ...

Arlington, Va, Oct. 8, 2026 — Increased consumption of potassium-rich foods that are part of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet did not raise blood potassium to dangerous levels ...

Arlington, Va., Oct. 9, 2026 — Masked high blood pressure in adults older than age 78 is associated with a 70% higher risk of falls compared to high blood pressure readings in the office and at home ...

DALLAS, Sept. 10, 2020 — A survey revealed that the majority of health care professionals are not following current, evidence-based practices to screen and diagnose hypertension, and a separate study ...

Heart disease and stroke still top the list of leading causes of death in the U.S., according to the American Heart Association’s 2026 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update The overall deaths ...

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A four-year blood pressure intervention program in rural China significantly reduced systolic blood pressure by an average of 22 mmHg and risk of all-cause dementia by 15% in people with high blood ...

A small study found that fatty buildup in the blood vessels of the neck (carotid arteries) may contain 50 times or more micronanoplastics — minuscule bits of plastic — compared to arteries free of ...

Physical activity, an essential component of any weight loss program, also supports overall heart and metabolic health, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in U.S., according to a new report from the American Heart Association; yet fewer than half of survey respondents knew that “Heart disease has now been ...