An analysis of the 2025 AHA/ACC hypertension guidelines found that under the new guidelines, about 11% of adults ages 65 to 79 with stage I hypertension would no longer qualify for blood pressure ...

The number doctors use to demarcate hypertension keeps going down, a trend applauded by many experts, who point to studies linking high blood pressure and dementia. By Paula Span The patient initially ...

An alert from Apple’s smartwatch hypertension notification feature can detect likely cases of high blood pressure, but a new study found the feature doesn’t replace standard screening with an arm cuff ...

Nearly half of adults in the United States have hypertension, or high blood pressure — but many of them, an estimated 11 million people, don’t know it. The condition is a leading cause of preventable ...

'So much of our health is invisible even to ourselves, and one of the biggest barriers to better health is simply not knowing what's going on,' says Apple’s Dr. Rajiv Kumar, physician-researcher ...

In September 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the Apple Watch Hypertension Notifications Feature, a cuffless tool that uses the watch’s optical sensors to detect blood flow patterns ...

Lots of Americans have a blood pressure problem, but plenty aren’t doing much to remedy it, according to research published today. Scientists studied nationally representative data from Americans over ...

National data showed 79% of adults with hypertension didn't have their blood pressure within the blood pressure goal recommended by guidelines. Most of those uncontrolled hypertension cases went ...

Apple has steadily expanded the Apple Watch’s health monitoring features over the years, moving beyond fitness tracking into areas that can offer early insight into potential medical concerns. One of ...

For millions of Apple Watch owners, the Hypertension Notifications Feature available on recent models is a big leap in wearable health monitoring. It promises to alert users to potential high blood ...

Apple today said that hypertension notifications are now available for Apple Watch and iPhone users in Australia, Malaysia, Colombia, Indonesia, South Korea, Brazil, and Turkey. Introduced last ...

“OK, now they’ve got my attention!” I thought when Apple finally announced its long-rumored hypertension tool alongside the Watch Series 11. I’m at risk for hypertension, also known as high blood ...