Your blood type and its connection to your heart is more important than you think. Here's what it may mean for your health.

February is American Heart Month, and doctors urge people to monitor blood pressure and cholesterol, as both can lead to heart disease without noticeable symptoms.

High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease. Here are some common questions you may have about blood ...

Findings highlight the importance of infection prevention measures and personalized heart failure care.

Therefore, using new definitions for mode of death due to heart failure, we performed a retrospective chart review of records from a university-based heart failure disease management program to ...

Although best described by a combination of both steady-state and pulsatile components, the latter is frequently overlooked when mean arterial pressure or systemic vascular resistance alone is used to ...

Over 70% of air pollution deaths are due to cardiovascular diseases – diseases of the heart and blood vessels, such as heart attacks and strokes. For many years, cardiovascular diseases were ...

“I’m thrilled.” About half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, a major risk for heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, even dementia. Many people don’t even realize they have hypertension until ...

causing an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes in these patients. But no one was looking at the vasculature," the blood vessels that carry the virus throughout the body and in and out of ...

Breathing exercises can temporarily lower your blood pressure and heart rate by activating the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is part of the parasympathetic nervous system, sending signals to and from ...

The American Heart Association recommends that you not smoke, drink beverages with caffeine, or exercise for 30 minutes before you take your blood pressure reading, as these activities can increase ...