While walking, hiking or doing other cardiovascular exercise, you might focus on your breathing or heart rate to gauge how hard you’re working. That’s a perfectly good approach, but it won’t tell you ...

Experts say gait speed, grip strength, balance, and endurance are some of the strongest predictors of long-term independence.

BNP may help doctors identify HCM patients at highest risk of serious heart complications, improving monitoring and treatment ...

New research published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings has shown that patients who can complete a workout on a treadmill during a cardiac stress test have much lower mortality risk than those ...

Dr London highlights the importance of tests like ABI, carotid ultrasound, echocardiogram, and cardiac CT angiogram.

It's common for patients to schedule an office visit due to symptoms like shortness of breath from doing regular tasks, feeling heart palpitations, experiencing mild chest pain, or feeling weak or ...

People struggling to pay for basic needs such as food, housing, and medical care face a sharply higher risk of death.

Cardio Diagnostics said the final gapfill payment rate of $854 for both tests is an increase from the preliminary gapfill ...

Nearly 8,000 cardiac panel blood tests have been recalled after 41 reports of inaccurate test results that pose the risk of missing a heart attack diagnosis, the FDA said July 17. Quidel ...

The common genetic heart condition under the lens is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The problem is that there is no cure ...

Snow shoveling creates hidden heart strain similar to cardiac stress tests. Learn safer techniques and warning signs to ...