The long-term health risks for hypertension in children and adolescents can be substantial. For this reason, the National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group (NHBPEP) on Children has established new blood pressure guidelines. They recommend that children have their blood pressure checked regularly beginning at age 13.

Until recently doctors have monitored blood pressure in young children...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), an arm of the National Institutes of Health, has released new clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, detection, and treatment of high blood pressure. These guidelines feature altered blood pressure categories, including a new "pre-hypertension" level.

Millions of people who previously were told that their blood pressure levels were fine, are...

Reducing risk factors could help you avoid becoming a 'face of stroke'

This year stroke will strike 700,000 Americans of all ages, genders and ethnicities. A member of your family, a friend or neighbor - even you - could be a victim.

Stroke is the No. 3 cause of death of Americans and is a leading cause of disability.

Better Health After 40 - Getting the Right Nutrients

As we get older and become more focused on the diseases and disorders that come with aging, we should also be concerned with getting the right nutrients that may help to prevent some of these diseases. What vitamins should you be getting to make the most of your health? And, how...

Better Health After 40

As we get older, we are at an increased risk for many chronic diseases—for about a dozen diseases this risk increases exponentially with each decade. These diseases include heart disease, cancer osteoarthritis, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and osteoporosis.

But many of these conditions are preventable and experts agree that making healthy changes at midlife can reduce...

FAWCO joins 16 NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC in a statement on  "Aging and the Rights of Older Persons" 60.50 Kb delivered to the 61st Human Rights Commission in Geneva April 14, 2005

Statement for the Human Rights Commission 61st session "Aging and the Rights of Older Persons", March 2005