The number of patients with heart failure is expected to rise sharply owing to ageing populations, poor dietary habits, unhealthy lifestyles and improved survival rates from conditions such as ...

Smoking cannabis can increase the risk of heart problems—but doing so and eating highly processed foods increases cardiac health risks even more, a new University of South Florida study says. The ...

The dangers posed by a stroke extend beyond the brain. A stroke can harm other organs such as the heart by triggering a systemic inflammatory response. Indeed, according to scientists based at Ludwig ...

Share on Pinterest The key to early intervention for cardiac problems may lie in determining the heart’s ‘true’ age, new research suggests. Sven Braun/picture alliance via Getty Images Tracking and ...

"Cardiac problems are primarily electric conduction abnormalities, seen in up to 75% of adult DM1 cases, which can result in life-threatening arrhythmias accounting for 25% mortality and the second ...

A new study presented at the American Heart Association’s scientific sessions has linked melatonin, one of the most widely used over-the-counter sleep supplements in the United States, to an increased ...

Over the last few years, cardiac diseases have been increasingly burdened. For a long time, high cholesterol was thought to be the major reason for cardiac problems. But experts have noticed the ...

COVID infection and long COVID substantially raise the risk for serious cardiovascular complications — including heart failure, arrhythmias, stroke, and thromboembolism — according to a clinical ...

Researchers focused on Myotonic Dystrophy 1 heart problems are testing a novel approach to restore normal function. Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset form of muscular ...

Scientists and doctors in recent decades have made vast leaps in the treatment of cardiac problems - particularly with the development in recent years of so-called "cardiac patches," swaths of ...