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Too much salt can cause hypertension - as well as raise your risk of heart disease and stroke. The Heart Research Institute UK (HRI) have advised Brits to cut down on certain foods.

Paulomi Debnath was a fit and healthy 43-year-old who didn’t smoke or eat junk food, but last year when she began to feel tired she went to talk to her GP. By chance, she took a blood pressure test that revealed she was living with hypertension.

It's long been known that being overweight or obese can make a person more apt to develop conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes, which can lead to cardiovascular disease. But experts at Mayo Clinic say obesity also can affect the heart in entirely independent ways.

Stunning as it may sound, nearly half of Americans ages 20 years and up have high blood pressure.

Ask about your blood pressure at every doctor’s visit.

Stunning as it may sound, nearly half of Americans ages 20 years and up – or more than 122 million people – have high blood pressure, according to a 2023 report from the American Heart Association. And even if your numbers are normal right now, they are likely to increase…

Too much salt is not good for your health. This is especially true for people who have high blood pressure. Cutting back on how much you reach for the saltshaker is a good start. Dr. Regis Fernandes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, says beware of other places salt may be hiding.

Prior research has linked poor sleep habits — including getting too little, too much or fragmented sleep — with heart disease, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular disease conditions.

The method could be used as part of routine eye checks to help identify people at high risk of developing the condition.

The health service has published data on its most frequently-visited web pages for medical conditions, giving us a picture of what the public searches for most often

NHS Digital has detailed the main reasons people sought medical advice from its website.