Two common, treatable medical conditions—hypertension and iron-deficiency anemia—contribute significantly to racial disparities in childbirth complications, according to a pair of new studies from the ...

Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a chronic health condition that occurs when the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your blood vessels is consistently too high. A ...

High blood pressure can indirectly cause shortness of breath by forcing the heart to work harder, which may lead to cardiovascular issues. Pulmonary hypertension, a specific type of high blood ...

High blood pressure can cause heart disease by damaging your blood vessels. Hypertension increases the risk of stroke because ...

These conditions don't guarantee heart problems later on, but they do increase risk-even years later.

Frozen embryo transfer showed similar perinatal complication rates to fresh transfer but was linked to higher pregnancy ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers compared hypertension-associated complications and the use of healthcare services at five years among hypertensive individuals managed ...

Ace Therapeutics announced custom animal models of hypertension, designed to help understand hypertension pathogenesis ...

Secondary hypertension is high blood pressure caused by an underlying health problem, such as kidney disease or hormone imbalances. Unlike primary hypertension, which has no apparent cause, secondary ...

Type 2 diabetes affects more than 500 million people throughout the world, and numbers are increasing rapidly. It increases the risk of many chronic health conditions, such as high blood pressure, ...