Heart Disease

What Causes High Blood Pressure?

Blood pressure is the term used to describe the pressure exerted on the arterial walls as blood flows through them. This pressure is at its highest when the heart contracts and pumps blood through the arteries and is called the systolic pressure.

Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis

Hypertension Risk Factors

Coronary Artery Disease Treatment

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention

Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)

Drug-Eluting Stent Alternatives

Cardiac Pharmaceutical Agents

Heart Attack Treatment

Myocardial T1 and T2 Mapping

Cardiovascular Benefits of Blueberries

Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors

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Hypertension Symptoms and Effects

Coronary Artery Disease and Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Carotid Artery Stenosis Treatment

Cardiogenic Shock Diagnosis

Obesity and Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure in Children

Target Heart Rate

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Causes

What is Carotid Artery Stenosis?

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Diagnosis

Cardiology Procedures

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Management

Heart Failure

Heart Attack Questions

Cardiogenic Shock Symptoms

What is a Heart Attack?

Coronary Artery Disease Characteristics

Hidden Signs of Heart Problems

Heart Failure Causes

What is Cardiology?

Cholesterol Physiology

Drug-Eluting Stent Indications

LDL Cholesterol and Heart Disease

Obesity in Adults

Heart Rate Reserve

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Treatment

Link between Bisphenol A and Increase in Blood Pressure

Heart Failure Diagnosis

What Causes A Heart Attack?

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)

Heart Failure Terminology

Hypertension Treatment

Carotid Artery Stenosis Diagnosis

Causes of Heartburn (Acid Reflux)

Heartburn (Acid Reflux) Triggers

Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Process

Foods that Reduce Heartburn (Acid Reflux)

How is Acid Reflux Diagnosed?

Heartburn (Acid Reflux) Treatments

How the Heart Pumps Blood

Heart Failure Management

Diagnosis of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Drug-Eluting Stent Design

Cardiothoracic Surgery

What is Cholesterol?

Cardiovascular Drugs

Coronary Artery Disease Angina

History of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Coronary Artery Disease Preventive Diets

What is Coronary Artery Disease?

What is Heart Rate?

What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?

Heart Rate Abnormalities

Heart Failure Classification

What is Cardiovascular Disease?

Heart Attack Diagnosis

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Screening

Hypertension Diagnosis

Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (AECOPD)

Causes and Symptoms of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Cardiothoracic Imaging Techniques

Cardiogenic Shock Treatment

Lowering Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

Heart Attack Symptoms

What is high cholesterol?

Abdominal Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

What is Obesity?

COPD and Sleep Apnea

Dieting for Obese Children

Heartburn (Acid Reflux) Prevention

Heart Failure Pathophysiology

Treatment of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Surviving Heart Attack

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Symptoms

High Cholesterol and Stroke Risk

Photoplethysmography (PPG) for Heart Disease

What are Drug-Eluting Stents?

Hypercholesterolemia and Hypocholesterolemia

Percutaneous Closure Procedure

Why is Visceral Fat Dangerous?

Drug-Eluting Stent Risks

High Blood Pressure Hypertension

Anti-Hypertensive Drugs

Structure and Function of the Heart

What is Cardiogenic Shock?

Pulmonary Rehabilitation for COPD

Heart Failure Prognosis

Diagnostic Tests for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Coronary Artery Disease and Aspirin

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Symptoms and Causes

Coronary Artery Disease Pathophysiology

Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

Heart Failure Symptoms

Heart Disease Biomarkers and Screening Tests

Heart attack and cardiac arrest difference

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Treatments

What is Heartburn (Acid Reflux)?

Prognosis for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Cardiovascular Disease Research

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Regular arts and physical activity linked to slower aging

Research shows that leisure activities, including arts engagement and physical exercise, are linked to slower epigenetic aging and improved health outcomes.

14 May 2026

Art history may help doctors better understand obesity stigma

Understanding how obesity has been portrayed in art across the ages can make doctors more empathic and less judgmental, which should lead to their patients achieving better outcomes, new reasearch at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026) argues.

14 May 2026

Qureight to support Mediar Therapeutics' Phase 2 trial of MTX-474 in diffuse cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis

Qureight, an end-to-end imaging CRO that provides enterprise-grade imaging and precision endpoints for clinical trials with a focus on lung and heart disease, and Mediar Therapeutics (Mediar), a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing first-in-class therapies designed to halt fibrosis, today announced Qureight's AI-powered 3D quantitative imaging analytics platform and services will be used to support Mediar's Phase 2 EncompaSSc clinical trial.

From Qureight 13 May 2026

Semaglutide significantly reduces obesity in treatment-resistant young adults

A weekly dose of semaglutide (2.4 mg) leads to a clinically significant reduction in body mass index (BMI) and related health outcomes in young adults with severe obesity who are treatment resistant following hospital-based non-pharmacological obesity care during childhood, according to a randomized controlled trial being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May).

13 May 2026

New trial aims to improve ATTR-CM diagnosis in heart failure

Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is an increasingly recognized yet frequently underdiagnosed cause of heart failure, particularly among older adults.

13 May 2026

Too little or excessive sleep may accelerate organ aging

An analysis of biological clocks throughout the human body suggests that too few hours of sleep-and too many-may speed aging in the brain, heart, lung, and immune system and is associated with a wide range of diseases.

13 May 2026

Study improves prediction of dangerous outcomed from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

A sweeping international study has identified ways to detect patients who are at serious risk of sudden death, heart failure or other dangerous outcomes from heart thickening known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

13 May 2026

Global hypertension burden rising sharply in lower-income countries

In theory, hypertension is a disease that is both easy to test for and readily treatable with existing medications and lifestyle interventions.

13 May 2026

Gut microbes may reveal why diabetes raises heart disease risk

Integrated gut microbiome and plasma metabolomics profiling identified distinct microbial and metabolic signatures in people with T2DM and T2DM-CAD. In a small exploratory cohort, Bacteroides sp._CAG_875 and 12-ketoLCA emerged as candidate markers that may help distinguish diabetic patients with coronary complications, pending larger validation.

13 May 2026

Adding GLP-1 drugs to behavioral interventions silences food noise

New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity in Istanbul, Turkey, shows that use of obesity drugs alongside behavioral interventions leads to a larger drop in so called 'food noise' than in those using the behavioral therapy alone.

13 May 2026

Study explains how APOE2 gene protects the brain against Alzheimer's disease

People who carry the APOE2 version of the apolipoprotein E gene are more likely to live to advanced age and are partly protected against Alzheimer's disease, but scientists have struggled to explain why.

13 May 2026

Perimenopausal women face higher risk of low heart health

Perimenopausal women were two times more likely to have a low cardiovascular health score compared to women having regular menstrual cycles, according to an analysis of nationwide U.S. data published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

13 May 2026

Osteoporosis may increase mortality risk in postmenopausal women

Osteoporosis, which is highly prevalent in postmenopausal women, has long been associated with an increased risk of fractures.

13 May 2026

AI models predict sudden cardiac arrest risk using health records

Researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that can scrutinize electronic health records (EHR) and electrocardiograms to identify individuals in the general population at elevated risk for sudden cardiac arrest - a condition that causes more than 400,000 U.S. deaths annually and has a survival rate of only 10%.

13 May 2026

Combined workouts and HIIT significantly lower daily blood pressure

Aerobic and resistance training combined, and high intensity interval training (HIIT), are associated with significant reductions in blood pressure over 24 hours, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence for several different types of structured exercise, and published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

13 May 2026

Cannabis and tobacco co-use may increase psychosis risk

A new multisite study published in Nature Mental Health found that using cannabis and tobacco together increases the risk of developing psychotic disorders like schizophrenia among those considered high risk.

12 May 2026

Loss of X chromosome linked to female infertility risk

Chromosomes carry genetic information for biological sex, which generally assigns women two X chromosomes and men XY chromosomes.

12 May 2026

Why is the US falling behind other high-income nations on survival?

A JAMA Network Open study found that the US recorded 12.7 million excess deaths compared with 17 peer high-income countries between 1999 and 2022. Circulatory and metabolic diseases drove much of the burden, while drug poisonings, alcohol-related deaths, and suicide sharply widened the gap among younger Americans.

12 May 2026

How diabetes could drain $5 trillion from the global economy by 2050

A macroeconomic modelling study across 190 countries and territories estimates that diabetes could reduce global economic output by INT$5.177 trillion between 2021 and 2050. Most projected losses stem from diabetes-related disability and morbidity, with high-income countries facing the largest dollar losses and low- and middle-income countries carrying most of the disease burden.

12 May 2026

Maternal insulin resistance linked to higher abdominal fat in girls

Girls born to mothers with higher insulin resistance during the third trimester are more likely to have more abdominal fat at age 7, according to research presented at the 28th European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague.

12 May 2026