What Is High Blood Pressure?
Email Print Español High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a common condition that occurs when your blood pressure—the force of the blood on the walls of your arteries—is often too high. Medical Animation Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, All rights reserved.(link is external) Half of all American adults have high blood pressure, also known as […]
Understanding Blood Pressure
We hear about it almost every day: blood pressure. So, what is this thing about pressuring my blood? And what should I know about it? When your heart beats, it squeezes and pushes blood through your arteries to the rest of your body. Measuring the pressure created by this force is called taking your blood […]