High blood pressure
Advice and information on high blood pressure from Nuffield Health experts.
This National Heart Health Month, Nuffield Health Physiotherapy Manager and Cardiac Rehabilitation Lead, Helen Alexander, shares five lifestyle changes you can make to help improve your heart health.
Updated: Friday 1 November 2024
Published: Thursday 2 February 2023
If the emails are stacking up and you feel like it's all getting too much, take some advice from Physiologist Marcus Herbert on how to relieve stress at work.
Updated: Tuesday 23 January 2024
Published: Monday 23 May 2016
If you suffer with high blood pressure, snacking can be difficult. Living with hypertension can mean drastic dietary changes that mean some fatty, high-calorie snacks are now off the menu. Thankfully, there are many tasty alternatives to your favourite snacks. Keep reading to find out how you can still enjoying snacks if you have high blood pressure.
Updated: Thursday 18 January 2024
Published: Wednesday 1 February 2017
Exercise is a great way to help lower your blood pressure levels. Ben Kelly, Director of Research and Outcomes, explains five of the best exercises.
Updated: Friday 22 September 2023
Published: Wednesday 30 March 2016
A pilot health initiative which aims to tackle cardiovascular disease through offering free blood pressure checks has launched in Manchester.
Updated: Friday 8 September 2023
Published: Monday 4 September 2023
Not sure what to make of your blood pressure? Here’s how the numbers work.
Updated: Tuesday 28 March 2023
Published: Friday 18 November 2016
It’s estimated sleep apnoea goes undiagnosed in as many as 5% of adults in the UK. The difficulty of course, is it only happens while you sleep. Here are six signs to wake up to.
Updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022
Published: Friday 29 July 2016
Recent fitness trends have placed a greater focus on resistance training, but that's no reason to ignore the benefits of cardiovascular exercise. Nuffield Health's Head of Fitness, Chris Foster, provides the reasons cardio can improve your health.
Updated: Thursday 3 September 2020
Published: Wednesday 16 November 2016
Andy had noticed he was getting larger. He was aware that his chest would get tight, and he preferred to hide in the back of photographs. But it wasn't until he applied for the Healthy Weight Programme that he realised how close he was to a catastrophic event.
Updated: Monday 18 May 2020
Published: Tuesday 30 May 2017