Advanced Medical Clinic Blog

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, can affect anyone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 45% of adult Americans have high blood pressure. Moreover, only about 24% of those individuals have their hypertension under control.

Blood pressure is the force of blood being pushed through the arteries that carry blood from your heart and circulate it throughout your body.

Blood pressure is the force of blood that is placed on the walls of the arteries and other blood vessels as it courses through the body.

Up until age 65, men and women are equally likely to have high blood pressure—but as we age the risk of high blood pressure in women increases dramatically

As modern and advanced as we think the United States is, it may still come as a surprise to some that obesity is a very real and present epidemic. In fact, 35 percent of adults and 17 percent of children and adolescents are considered overweight to the point of being obese.