A Northwestern University study suggests young children with high blood pressure have a sharply increased risk of dying of heart disease by their mid-50s. Photo by Halfpoint/Adobe Stock/HealthDay News ...

The Massachusetts State Lottery is hosting blood drives in Dorchester and Braintree. The drives aim to support patients at ...

For accurate readings, check your blood pressure twice a day, take five minutes to relax, and make sure you're following your monitor's directions.

Pediatric medicine is more often than not a “calling” — the result of a personal commitment to reduce suffering in our children. This mission-oriented sense of purpose exists at odds with the economic ...

Doctor measuring blood pressure of a little girl. Children are at risk for high blood pressure if their mom suffered health problems during pregnancy Kids had higher blood pressure on average if their ...

Eating too much sodium can contribute to high blood pressure in adults. Is a salty diet as dangerous for kids? In a study published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at the Centers for Disease ...

Children born to mothers with obesity, a form of diabetes that develops during pregnancy (gestational diabetes mellitus) or high blood pressure during pregnancy have higher blood pressure — both the ...

The results showed that 18 of the 42 compounds tested for were present at every age, with younger children having higher ...

Two new studies by the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology–BIPS in Bremen show for the first time that ...

Obed & Isaac’s new Bloodline Wheat beer supports kids with cancer and promotes blood donations in Peoria and Springfield.

Children with obesity or severe obesity were significantly more likely to have high blood pressure than children with normal weight, based on new data from nearly 1000 children collected at youth ...