U.S. heart disease mortality has dropped 66% since 1970, mainly due to fewer ischemic heart disease deaths. However, deaths ...

In a nutshell Heart attack deaths have dropped by 89% since 1970, thanks to major medical advances, public health efforts, ...

A new study highlights a sharp decline in deaths from heart attacks, while showing a significant rise in mortality from other heart conditions.

Your chance of dying from a heart attack has dropped dramatically, but other deadly heart conditions are on the rise, a new ...

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus are at a higher risk of developing heart failure compared with the healthy population. In recent landmark clinical trials, sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2 ...

Heart transplantation remains the optimal long-term treatment for appropriate patients with advanced heart failure. However, the donor heart shortage is a limiting factor, and the risk profile of ...

Many of the compensatory biochemical mechanisms activated during early heart failure, such as neurohormonal activation and cytokine and growth-factor upregulation, induce myocellular hypertrophy ...

Background For the treatment of breathlessness in heart failure (HF), most textbooks advocate the use of opioids. Yet, meta-analyses are lacking. Methods A systematic review was performed for ...

Heart Failure (HF) is a prevalent ailment worldwide, and despite significant medical advancements in the past few decades, cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death. Although HF ...

Extreme emotional stress can cause a medical condition called broken heart syndrome. For decades, doctors thought it should mainly concern women — but that’s changing.

A cheap over-the-counter supplement could hold the key to preventing heart failure in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to research presented Tuesday at the British Cardiovascular Society ...

Background Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a complex clinical syndrome in which signs and symptoms of heart failure (HF) occur despite a normal left ventricular ejection ...