Checking your blood pressure at home can be a way to monitor any hypertension and potential for heart disease. WebMD tells you how to do it.

A healthy blood pressure is less than 120/80 mm Hg, often read as "120 over 80." However, follow any blood pressure guidelines from your healthcare provider.

If you have high blood pressure, getting regular exercise is important -- and your Apple Watch makes it easy to check it.

HYPERTENSION or high blood pressure, remains a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke, affecting 48 per cent of adults in the United States. According to the Jamaica Health and ...

In short, the right frequency for checking your blood pressure at home depends on your health status, but doing it regularly ...

High blood pressure can lead to a series of health complications High blood pressure, or hypertension, can lead to health complications such as a heart attack and stroke, so detecting it is important.

Stage 1 high blood pressure is when systolic is 130 to 139 or diastolic is 80 to 89. Stage 2 hypertension is systolic blood pressure of 140 or higher and a diastolic pressure of 90 or higher.

Checking your blood pressure has become simple with the Apple Watch, ... Monitoring your blood pressure at home allows you to track readings over time. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!

Regularly checking your blood pressures at home and bringing in the device (if it has a memory chip) or a log will be very helpful. Dear Dr. Roach : I’m 84 years old and in pretty good health.

CR tests blood pressure monitors on real people, and we compare the results with those of a mercury sphygmomanometer, the device considered the gold standard in BP testing.

From smartphone apps to watches, there is an increasing number of ways you can check your blood pressure, but some doctors are not ready to endorse them. “They haven’t really been tested ...