Financial stress may be as bad for the heart as traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease

A new study raises questions about how financial stress fits into cardiovascular health. Dr. Leana Wen explains what people ...
STAT

Food insecurity in early adulthood raises the risk of heart disease, long-term study shows

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Start with a snapshot: Adults without reliable ...
Yahoo

A study questions melatonin use and heart health but don't lose sleep over it

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t lose sleep over headlines linking melatonin to heart failure. That’s the message after some scary-sounding reports about a preliminary study involving the sleep-related ...
Healthline

Heart Disease Prevention Quiz: How Healthy Are Your Habits?

Take this self-reflective quiz to see how your daily habits may be affecting your heart health and where you might be able to make small improvements. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of ...
University of Utah Health

The Connection Between Erectile Dysfunction and Heart Disease

Did you know that problems with getting an erection when aroused can be your body's way of telling you to take a look at your ...
Medscape

In Heart Failure, Cellular Therapy Is Active

CHICAGO — For patients with advanced heart failure, an injection of autologous mononuclear cells into damaged myocardia missed the primary endpoint in the sham-controlled, randomized, blinded CardiAMP ...
Medscape

SHIFT: Adding HR-slowing agent ivabradine to HF meds cuts mortality, hospitalization

Stockholm, Sweden (updated) - Patients with chronic systolic heart failure who added i vabradine (Procoralan, Servier) to the medications they were already taking showed a significant 18% drop in the ...