You have been diagnosed with heart rhythm disorder AFib. Now what?
It may start with a rapid heartbeat, a fluttering feeling in your chest or a heightened awareness of your own heartbeat.
Sometimes you feel it...
High blood pressure diagnosis leads to discovery of complex heart issues
Childhood friends Glenda Jennings and Connie Hoffroggy were catching up. They lived in different cities and hadn't seen each other in a while.
Hoffroggy noticed...
Indian gooseberry: best food for high blood cholesterol
With high cholesterol, you can develop fatty deposits in your blood vessels.
Eventually, these deposits grow, making it difficult for enough blood to flow through your...
Benefits of statins may have been overstated – new study
Cholesterol-lowering statins are one of the world’s most commonly used medicines.
They were first approved for people with a high risk of cardiovascular disease in...
Even moderate light exposure during sleep can harm your heart, insulin health
Close the blinds, draw the curtains and turn off all the lights before bed.
In a new study from Northwestern Medicine, researchers found exposure to...
High cholesterol may not lead to heart disease, study finds
In a new study from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, researchers found that the link between 'bad' cholesterol (LDL-C) and poor health...
This diet can lower cholesterol and blood sugar
A healthy Nordic diet can prevent a range of diseases. Until now, the health benefits that researchers had attributed to a Nordic diet primarily...
Professor used his stroke to create an app that helps survivors relearn skills
Mark Brodie was sitting behind his laptop in his home office, grading student papers for a mobile applications class he taught at Simpson College...
This type of self-care could help reduce heart disease risk
Despite what skeptics say, being kind to oneself is not a New Age fad—and there is research to back it up.
Middle-aged women who practiced...
Heart attack risk factors you can and can’t control
A heart attack happens when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of heart muscle suddenly becomes blocked and the heart can’t get...