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Ethnicity a 'risk-enhancing' factor under new cholesterol guidelines
Jan 11, 2019
Indian or Japanese? Puerto Rican or Mexican? Ethnic background plays a role in cholesterol screening and treatment.
Jan 11, 2019
Indian or Japanese? Puerto Rican or Mexican? Ethnic background plays a role in cholesterol screening and treatment.
Dec 11, 2018
A new study shows increasing physical activity in the first year after a heart attack is associated with a lower death rate for survivors.
Nov 29, 2018
After a heart attack during a race, Alanna Gardner learned her childhood fainting spells were triggered by an undiagnosed heart defect.
Nov 28, 2018
New research links pneumonia and other infections to an increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke within three months.
Nov 27, 2018
Guidelines that changed the definition of hypertension have prompted a year of dialogue, along with renewed focus on the importance of monitoring blood pressure.
Nov 15, 2018
For people with heart disease, the thickness of their Achilles tendon may be an indicator of heart attack risk, a new study suggests.
Nov 12, 2018
Once characterized as a result of "old man's disease," heart attacks are increasingly occurring in younger people, especially women, according to research.
Nov 9, 2018
A new study found a link between flu activity and increase in heart failure hospitalizations in same month.
Nov 8, 2018
Heart attacks in pregnant women are rare, but the number rose in recent years, according to a new study that looked at possible predictors.
Oct 19, 2018
A Philadelphia health network executive had a heart attack and made his family drive past three hospitals to get him to the only one he trusted – his own.