Heart Health

Testosterone treatment not linked to heart disease risk in men

Scientists from the University of Aberdeen found that testosterone replacement therapy appears safe in the short-to-medium term to treat a condition caused by deficiency...

Scientists find strong link between diabetes and heart valve disease

Scientists from the University of Gothenburg found that people with diabetes display an increased risk of disease in left-sided heart valves compared to controls...

Multiple heart problems may give you triple dementia risk

Scientists from Oxford University and the University of Exeter found that having multiple conditions that affect the heart is linked to a greater risk...

It can take 6 months to recover from heart damage after COVID-19 infection

Scientists from Appalachian State University found that arterial stiffness and blood pressure in young, otherwise healthy adults may take as long as six months...

Smoking doubles your risk of heart failure

Scientists from Johns Hopkins found that people who smoked tobacco cigarettes developed heart failure at twice the rate of those who never smoked. This higher...

His company’s CPR learning app helped save an employee’s 2-year-old son

Amid pulsating music, flying bodies and all the other stimulation radiating from his 8-year-old daughter's dance class, Lawrence Schwartz felt as if he'd lost...

This method can reduce blood pressure consistently

Scientists from the University of Houston found that deep nerve stimulation consistently reduces blood pressure. They found that blood pressure and renal sympathetic nerve activity...

Endurance exercise may affect your body’s largest artery

Scientists from UCL found that older male athletes could be at higher risk of heart and circulatory diseases than female competitors of a similar...

Scientists find a low-cost heart failure treatment

Scientists from the University of Shizuoka found sarpogrelate, an antiplatelet medication, has potential as a new heart failure therapy and may decrease health care...

Two common diabetes drugs could increase your heart attack risk

In a recent study, researchers from Northwestern University found two drugs commonly prescribed to treat Type 2 diabetes carry a high risk of cardiovascular...