High blood pressure at birth may be an early warning sign, setting the stage for cardiovascular disease later in life. A longitudinal study, the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort, set out to understand whether ...

Associations between blood pressure and microaggressions are highest in the later postpartum period, finds new study in the Hypertension journal More than one-third of Asian, Black and Hispanic women ...

Children exposed before birth to synthetic compounds called "forever chemicals" had higher blood pressure during their teenage years, according to research published in the Journal of the American ...

Foetal anaemia occurs when an unborn baby has fewer healthy red blood cells than expected for their stage of pregnancy. In this guide, our experts explain why it can happen, how doctors detect it ...

It's well known that certain forms of birth control carry a small risk of blood clots. Now a large new study suggests that some common painkillers can magnify that risk. The study, of 2 million Danish ...