A recall of a blood pressure and heart medicine used by over 60,0000 Irish patients has “caused consternation”, with pharmacists inundated with patient requests for alternatives at a time when the supply of unaffected medicines is constrained.

Two in five people who availed of free blood pressure checks at pop-up mobile clinics around the country were found to have high blood pressure — putting them at risk of heart attack and stroke.

Two in five people who availed of free blood pressure checks at pop-up mobile clinics around the country were found to have high blood pressure — putting them at risk of heart attack and stroke, reports Caroline O’Doherty.

Adults who haven’t had their blood pressure checked in the past year are being urged to do so now as part of a global initiative to screen 25m people in a single month.

When your heart pumps blood round your body it produces pressure against the walls of your blood vessels. The force of this pumping is called blood pressure.

Lisa Salmon reports on a difficult-to-diagnose disease.

Feeling light-headed and dizzy when standing up suddenly may be a warning sign of Alzheimer's, research has shown.

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Concern is being raised about the level of people here who have high blood pressure and don't know it.

People with high blood pressure are almost 60% more likely to develop diabetes, research on 4.1m people has shown.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the sons of the late actor and comedian Dermot Morgan are backing a new campaign to encourage greater awareness of the risks of high blood pressure.

Private patients are losing out when it comes to being treated for high blood pressure — they are significantly less likely to be on medication to control it than those with medical cards, research has found.

Food preparation and cooking should be included on the primary school curriculum in light of a new study showing growing levels of childhood obesity and ill health, a chef says.

A major study of primary schoolchildren has found that about one in 12 has high blood pressure and more than half are ingesting too much salt.