Poorer counties have higher heart failure death rates
Sep 4, 2019
Researchers say levels of diabetes and obesity explain most of the connection between poverty and heart failure deaths.
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Treatment for childhood cancer increases risk of heart disease
Aug 26, 2019
Childhood cancer survivors are at heightened risk of developing heart disease compared to their peers without cancer, new research finds.
Meth and heart disease: A deadly crisis we don't fully fathom, report says
Aug 21, 2019
Methamphetamine has potentially fatal long-term effects, but researchers say the public's knowledge hasn't kept up with the problem's scope.
Researchers examine dangerous combination of diabetes, heart failure among Asians
Aug 21, 2019
Diabetes and heart failure can cause structural changes in the heart and increase the risk of death, a study in Asian people shows.
A new heart saved her 鈥� and it came with the name of the teen who gave it
Aug 20, 2019
After a heart transplant transformed her life, an Arizona woman honors the donor who made it possible.
A daughter makes lifesaving plea to 911: Coach me through CPR?
Aug 12, 2019
After her mother's heart stopped, a woman's CPR training kicked in 鈥� with guidance from a 911 dispatcher.
Here's how many years you could gain by keeping heart disease at bay
Jul 25, 2019
While progress has been made in the fight against heart disease, the number of years of life lost is staggering. Some disturbing trends also point toward possible solutions.
Where there's wildfire smoke, there may be heart problems
Jul 22, 2019
Wildfires are expected to burn hotter and more frequently, posing health risks, especially for people with heart conditions.
Doctors shrugged off athlete's gasping, until one heart surgeon listened
Jul 3, 2019
A woman's fitness helped hide a silent but astonishing heart defect until she was 45.
This faulty gene may help predict heart muscle disease
Jun 20, 2019
Starting with genetic sequence information, researchers found that people with certain mutations were more likely to develop dilated cardiomyopathy.