In a study of 620 married fathers in the United Kingdom, those who reported improving marital relationships over a six-year span dropped an average of 10 pounds. They also showed slightly lower LDL cholesterol levels and improvements in blood pressure readings.

A new type of monogenic diabetes, caused by a gene mutation and fueled by a lack of the insulin-stimulating hormone GIP, has been discovered by a team of researchers across Europe and Asia.

Women who develop hypertension in their 40s are up to 73 percent more likely to suffer from dementia later in life than normotensive counterparts, recent research published in Neurology states, while men with high blood pressure don’t see an increased risk at all.

Children with high blood pressure may not suffer the consequences of hypertension until they become adults but, if left untreated, their condition can put them on a path to atherosclerosis and heart attack.

Consuming dairy products—cheese in particular—could actually help reduce the risk of diabetes in the American population, according to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Oct. 4, 2017 — ROX Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company pioneering an innovative interventional vascular therapy for Uncontrolled Hypertension, announced today that the first patient was treated in the CONTROL HyperTeNsion (HTN)-2 clinical study, the Company's pivotal study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the ROX Coupler used to create an arterio-venous anastomosis in the iliac vessels, in patients with high blood pressure.

More than half a million people were diagnosed with obesity-related cancers in the U.S. in 2014, the CDC reported Tuesday, and those numbers aren’t expected to deflate anytime soon.

A new study comparing vegetable oils suggests an essential fatty acid has a stronger tie to weight gain than saturated fat intake.