If your blood pressure levels are unchecked and high for a long period of time, it might lead to serious health problems such as heart attack, stroke, heart failure, or even kidney failures.
Seventy per cent of digital blood pressure monitors used at homes are "unacceptably inaccurate", and could cause serious implications for people who rely on them.
Hand-grip exercises - squeezing one of those V-shape devices with a resistance spring - can lower your blood pressure by about 10 percent.
Diet happens to play a critical role in managing blood pressure. Here are four foods that can help to manage the same.
'Hal' stands for 'plow' and 'Asana' stands for 'pose'. Halasana or 'the plough pose' takes its name from the farming instrument, plough, used by farmers across India.