High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is estimated to affect one in three Americans and can increase a person's risk for heart disease and stroke. But how does a person get hypertension and can it be prevented? ...

Obese girls suffer from more severe hypertension than obese boys during their teenage years, researchers from the University of California at Merced reported in the American Physiological Society conference. Hypertension (high blood pressure) raises the risk of subsequent stroke and heart disease. Dr Rudy Ortiz PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology and Nutrition, and team studied 1,700 teenage ...

It's been long known that the prevalence of hypertension and heart disease differs between men and women, but scientists don't know why.

( Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions ) A study involving more than 200,000 people worldwide has identified 29 DNA sequence variations in locations across the human genome that influence blood pressure. These genes, whose sequence changes are associated with alterations in blood pressure and are linked to heart disease and stroke, were found with the help of decades' worth of population data that ...

Early menopause is what Leslie Lee thought was happening two years ago. "I just started dripping sweat. My back was drenched with sweat. I felt really light headed. My heart just started racing," she said. | Watch Video: Hypertension And Heart Disease