Your blood-pressure reading probably isn’t as accurate as you think. More often than not, patients and even nurses and doctors are skipping steps that help paint an accurate portrait of someone ...

But hypertension itself – otherwise known as high blood pressure, where the force of blood cells pushing up against your arteries is consistently too high – sneaks up on the one in four of us ...

When the pressure of blood within the walls of your arteries becomes high enough to damage your cardiovascular system, it’s known as hypertension or high blood pressure. High blood pressure can ...