The growing morbidity, mortality, and health care costs related to heart failure (HF) underscore the urgent need to prioritize its primary prevention. Whereas a risk-based approach for HF prevention ...

The autopsy of a Burlington woman, whose husband is accused of murdering her, revealed she died from her neck being compressed. However, it also found she had a serious heart condition that could ...

Following a heart-healthy diet may help lower your blood pressure. Eating foods with nutrients like potassium and magnesium may be especially helpful. Hypertension, or high blood pressure ...

For the unversed, the autopsy reports had revealed that the 95-year-old and the 65-year-old had died of hypertensive heart disease and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) respectively. Moreover ...

Her father, Phillip, 79, died at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary later that day from "affects of fire and hypertensive heart disease and pulmonary artery atheroma". He had been rescued by ...

Introduction: Lead exposure (LE) has been increasingly recognized as a significant risk factor for hypertensive heart disease (HHD), with no safe threshold identified for its adverse health effects.

Generally, a dangerous heart rate for an adult is above 100 beats per minute (bpm) at rest or less than 60 bpm at rest. However, some individuals may experience slight variations in these heart rates.

* Junior visiting physician, Beth Israel Hospital; instructor in medicine, Harvard Medical School. † Assistant in medicine, Beth Israel Hospital; member, Cardiac Clinic, Massachusetts Memorial ...

Deciding when to go to the hospital for a rapid heart depends on your health history and how you are feeling overall. A heart rate of 100 beats per minute (bpm) or higher, also known as tachycardia, ...