Checking your blood pressure at home or a local pharmacy can be an effective way to stay proactive about your heart health.

Changing the way you walk could make all the difference.

Normal blood pressure for humans is below 120/80 mm Hg. If you’re an adult and your systolic pressure is 120 to 129, and your diastolic pressure is less than 80, you have elevated blood pressure.

Turns out, the balance between two common nutrients—sodium and potassium-can dramatically alter your blood pressure, and even more fascinatingly, it doesn’t work the same way in men and women.

The following morning, they took blood pressure readings and fasting blood samples to measure lipid levels - specifically, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density ...