Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in five deaths. The inability of damaged heart muscle tissue to regenerate makes heart disease difficult to ...

Women have a lower incidence of heart failure than men, although the incidence may be increasing over time. Since women have a greater life expectancy than men, but the same lifetime risk for ...

This article addresses gender disparity in cardiovascular disease, with selected examples used to explore whether these disparities represent bias, biology or both. Gender-specific basic and ...

Some people will also feel more tired (fatigued) than usual. Diastolic heart failure is when diastolic dysfunction gets so bad that a person starts having symptoms of heart failure. At first, ...

The 94-year-old died of heart disease and complications caused by Alzheimer’s disease, according to the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator. Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder ...

According to the British Heart Foundation, 7.6 million people in the UK are living with heart and circulatory disease – and sadly, someone dies from these conditions every three minutes. Early ...

What Is Hypertensive Heart Disease? Your heart beats around 100,000 times every day. Every minute, it pumps nearly 1.5 gallons of blood. But there are a lot of reasons why this crucial organ can ...

Dropsy, described in the 17th century, treated with “cure de dechloruration” (bloodletting, leeching, and lancing) and a predecessor of heart failure (HF), yielded ... the focus necessarily became ...