Exercise isn’t all about weight loss. Researchers studying the effects of exercise find that it affects the body down to the subcellular level.
Surgery for chronic heartburn relieves symptoms better than medication for at least five years.
If you aren’t physically active, chances are it’s more than a coincidence if you have heart disease.
Meat eaters should be careful about taking L-carnitine supplements, new research suggests.
Bypass surgery is considered the best treatment when all three coronary arteries are blocked. It’s usually the best choice when the most important of the three arteries is blocked.
Eat a half cup of blueberries or strawberries three times each week. It’s nutritious-and it may very well lower your risk of heart attack, a study of young and middle-aged women suggests.
Taking two kinds of blood thinners-anticoagulant and antiplatelet drugs-increases your risk of dangerous bleeding. But for some people with atrial fibrillation, the stroke-prevention benefit of this double therapy far outweighs the risk.
Common causes of cold feet include clogged arteries in the legs (peripheral artery disease), low body fat, Raynaud’s syndrome, and nerve damage.
Poor sleep is linked to poor heart health. That goes double for people with sleep apnea, who stop breathing many times during the night.
Operations, even those that don’t directly concern the heart, put people with heart disease at risk of heart-related complications.