Intensive exercise and sport changes the heart of an athlete. Research led by Amsterdam UMC shows that the hearts of female ...

However, its effects on contractile function of the failing human heart are also unknown. In this study, we compared the short-term effects of endogenous ET-1 on intrinsic cardiac contractile function ...

A Bar-Ilan University study has found that individuals with sodium levels at the higher end of the "normal" range are significantly more likely to develop hypertension and heart failure ...

With more than half of people in the UK with high cholesterol and one in four with high blood pressure, here are the facts on ...

Nearly half of patients with symptoms of heart failure are found to have a normal left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction. This has variously been labelled as diastolic heart failure, heart failure ...

To the Editor: We read with interest, the featured editorial by Yip et al1 on heart failure with normal ejection fraction (HENEF). His comments on current studies of spironolactone in HENEF are ...

The short answer is: no. A heart attack, simply put, is when one of the coronary arteries become blocked, cutting off blood supply to the heart muscle. And a cardiac arrest is when the heart stops ...

High serum potassium, calcium, and magnesium levels have been reported to be associated with decreased risks of ischemic stroke, whereas their prognostic values in ischemic stroke remain unclear. We ...

A new observational study of more than a million people shows that those who had one injection of the shingles vaccine Zostavax were 26 per cent less likely to die from heart disease or experience ...