Your heart pumps blood to organs and tissues around your body. As this blood moves through your body, it creates pressure on the walls of arteries. This force, or pressure, of blood circulating ...

Getting an accurate reading on a home blood pressure monitor requires a certain amount of effort. First off, you need an accurate device. Resources like CR’s blood pressure monitor ratings and the ...

To find the best blood pressure monitors, we’ve taken more than 1,500 blood pressure readings to bring you our definitive verdict on the ease of use, comfort and accuracy of widely available models.

Nearly half of all adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure. "High blood pressure (also called hypertension) puts you at ...

You can find monitors at pharmacies, medical supply stores or online, and you don’t need a prescription to buy one. Q: I just found out I have stage 1 hypertension and my doctor recommended I get a ...

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