(KRON) — You may be familiar with your blood pressure, but do you know what those numbers really mean? Now there’s a THIRD pressure that’s important to know about and is worth monitoring as well. Our ...

Pulse pressure was found to have a significant association with chronic kidney disease (CKD), indicating that changes in pulse pressure could serve as a predictive marker for disease progression.

Home blood pressure measurement has a stronger predictive power for cardiovascular mortality than office blood pressure screening. 1 Oscillometric automated blood pressure measurement devices have ...

Ankle–brachial index (ABI) measurement offers an easily available method to diagnose peripheral artery disease (PAD) and systemic atherosclerosis in early stage and thus to identify high-risk ...

Dart and Kingwell review the cause and effect of elevated pulse pressure in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. [1] They address the "chicken and egg" debate about ...