Elderly Blood Pressure
You'll likely never notice symptoms of high blood pressure, so it's important to understand the disease and live a healthy lifestyle to manage yours or your loved one's elderly blood pressure. Blood pressure refers to the pressure or force of your circulating blood against your blood vessels' walls. If the force is too high, your heart works overtime to pump blood. Blood pressure is one of the four basic vital signs. While low blood pressure is concerning, over 70 percent of elderly experience the chronic disease high blood pressure aka hypertension. People over age 50 are most at risk. After [...]