Adults ages 60 to 69 who scored lower on overall thinking ability, memory and mental processing speed tests were more likely to have a future stroke, finds a study in Sweden, published in the Journal ...

Every year, more than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of a hospital in the United States[1]. Survival often depends on how quickly people nearby recognize the emergency, call 911, begin CPR and ...

Coordinated care among multispecialty team may reduce risk of amputation, heart attack, stroke and death for people with PAD, according to new joint guideline from the American Heart Association, the ...

Go Red for Women movement inspires Jackson middle school girls to follow their dreams of becoming next generation to lead in STEM fields ...

A four-year blood pressure intervention program in rural China significantly reduced systolic blood pressure by an average of 22 mmHg and risk of all-cause dementia by 15% in people with high blood ...

Adults with elevated levels of three biomarkers for heart disease—lipoprotein a (also called Lp(a)), remnant cholesterol and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP)—had nearly triple the risk of ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in U.S., according to a new report from the American Heart Association; yet fewer than half of survey respondents knew that “Heart disease has now been ...

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More than 20 years of data show a 37% increase in obesity, 23% in abdominal obesity, and over two-fold increase in severe obesity among both adults and youth, according to authors of a new study ...

These psychosocial stressors are each associated with heart disease risk and the combination was especially dangerous to men, finds study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes journal ...

Among almost 43 million people in England who received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, the risk of myocarditis was substantially higher in the four weeks after COVID-19 infection than after a ...

Adults ages 65 and older with high blood pressure, stroke or heart failure had significant declines in cardiovascular health scores, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Heart ...