Heart disease is once again the leading cause ... in 2022 (the most recent year for which final data is available) the overall number of cardiovascular disease-related deaths in the U.S. was ...

The second, or bottom, number is called diastolic blood pressure. These two numbers show how hard your heart works to pump blood throughout your body and how much pressure it puts on your blood ...

heart attack or stroke. Blood pressure numbers indicate the pressure measured when your heart beats (systolic), and in between the beats (diastolic). Less than 120/80 (one hundred twenty over ...