Women may have a lower normal healthy range of blood pressure than men, new research has suggested. Study author Dr. Susan Cheng shares why women need to pay closer attention to this vital sign.

Despite more complex reproductive organs and fewer resources, female bodies are built to get through hardship and disease, ...

New research shows for the first time that women's blood vessels, both large and small arteries, age at a faster rate than men's. The findings, published Wednesday in JAMA Cardiology, challenge ...

For women, factors like age, hormonal shifts, and lifestyle changes can all influence blood pressure at different stages of life. In this article, “women” refers to people assigned female at ...

Women may develop heart disease differently from men and experience symptoms that are uncommon in men. Women are more likely to have blockage in smaller blood vessels around the heart, and while ...

At the start, high blood pressure was much less common in women than in men: 25 percent of women and 35 percent of men had stage 1 hypertension, which the American Heart Association defines as a ...

Female adolescent blood donors are more likely to have low iron stores and iron deficiency anemia than adult female blood donors and nondonors, which could have significant negative consequences ...

Many medical experts have long believed that women simply 'catch up' to men in terms of their cardiovascular risk, but new research shows for the first time that women's blood vessels age at a ...