February is American Heart Month, a time to raise awareness about cardiovascular health and encourage people to take proactive steps to protect their hearts. Heart disease remains the leading cause of ...

About every 34 seconds, someone, somewhere in the United States dies from heart disease — which remains the leading cause of death for both men and women, according to the American Heart Association.

Perimenopause may present a unique 'window of opportunity' to lower cardiovascular risk, the authors of a new study suggest.

Heart disease continues to stand as the No. 1 cause of death in the United States. Coronary heart disease, the most common type of heart disease in the U.S., was responsible for the deaths of nearly ...

Most heart health conversations start and end in the same place: eat more vegetables, move your body, skip the processed ...

I co-wrote this piece with Dr. Jeffrey Chen, a Harvard-trained emergency medicine physician who now practices longevity ...

Worrying about money and food may age the heart even faster than traditional risk factors of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Heart ...

Before a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular disease hit, there are almost always warning signs, according to a new study. Those warning signs are well-known cardiovascular disease risk ...

Preventing heart disease starts long before symptoms appear, and understanding what works (and what doesn’t) can make all the difference. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, ...

For more than a century, cardiovascular disease has remained the leading cause of death in the U.S. Yet these last 100 years have also brought about incredible medical advances that have transformed ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Since researchers first established the link between diet, cholesterol and heart disease in the 1950s, risk for heart disease has been ...