Move around a lot while you sleep? It might be bad news for your heart
Sep 21, 2022
People with moderate to severe sleep apnea or who move a lot while they sleep may be at greater risk for a precursor to heart failure, new research shows.
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People with rheumatoid arthritis, other autoimmune diseases may face greater risks after heart attack
Sep 14, 2022
After a heart attack, people with autoimmune disease are more likely to die or have other heart problems than those without an autoimmune condition, a new study shows.
Myocarditis from COVID-19 booster rare, but risk highest among teen boys, young men
Sep 6, 2022
Cases of myocarditis – an inflammation of the heart muscle – following a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine are rare and typically mild, research from Israel shows.
Addiction care urged for people who inject drugs and develop dangerous heart infection
Aug 31, 2022
People who inject drugs are at high risk for infective endocarditis – and when they have this dangerous heart infection, should also be treated for addiction, a new report says.
New report details what to know about cardiovascular disease symptoms
Aug 18, 2022
A scientific report from the American Heart Association looks at the latest science on symptoms of cardiovascular diseases and suggests what could be done better.
Heart failure at age 30 brought on by pregnancy
Aug 16, 2022
Six weeks after giving birth, Fatima Mathews of New York was diagnosed with postpartum cardiomyopathy. Today, an LVAD keeps her heart pumping.
Research captures unfolding cardiovascular toll from meth use
Aug 1, 2022
A large new study of California hospital patients suggests methamphetamine use may be as big a risk to heart health as alcohol misuse and cocaine use.
She was being treated for her lungs, but the problem was her heart
Jul 25, 2022
Maria Philippon of Orange County, California, had been sick for a year before a specialist figured out she had heart failure, leading to open-heart surgery.
Family's hereditary heart condition discovered after her father and two sisters died young
Jul 6, 2022
DeAnn Bartram of Ohio got a defibrillator implanted in her chest after doctors discovered she has the same genetic condition that caused the deaths of her father and two sisters.
Falls can be a serious, poorly understood threat to people with heart disease
May 19, 2022
Cardiovascular disease, and some medications for it, can increase the risk of potentially dangerous falls. But a new report highlights the many gaps in understanding.