If you have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the muscles in the left side of your heart become abnormally thick, which makes both filling and emptying of the...
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Which Cholesterol Drug Is Safest?
For people with high cholesterol, lifestyle modifications such as eating better, getting more exercise, losing weight and reducing stress can help curb cardiovascular risk…to some...
Building Awareness: Heart Health in Women
Women are more aware of their risk of heart attack than in the past, including the differences in symptoms they’re likely to experience compared with...
Silent Heart Attack
When we think of heart attacks, a common image comes to mind: a person clutching his or her chest, doubled over in pain. But it’s...
Statin Interactions
Cholesterol-lowering statins are among the most prescribed medications in the United States. These drugs lower levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) by...
The A-fib Plan
More people than ever before have atrial fibrillation (A-fib), an irregular heart rate that occurs when the upper chambers of the heart beat chaotically and...
Cardiovascular Disease Is Different in Older People
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among older Americans—yet research into CVD treatments typically is conducted on younger people. Problem: Treatments that are safe...
Open-Heart Surgery
Learning that the cause of your chest pain is a blockage in the arteries of the heart can be frightening! But the good news is...
How to Reduce Your Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Naturally
When some people receive an atrial fibrillation diagnosis, their first question is whether medication and surgery are really necessary. Can the condition (an irregular, quivering...
Atrial Fibrillation Treatment in the Elderly
Somewhere between 3 million and 10.5 million Americans have atrial fibrillation, an erratic heartbeat caused by faulty electrical signaling in the heart. A-fib is especially...
Surgical Treatments for Atrial Fibrillation
Although atrial fibrillation (“A-fib”) is a serious and even dangerous condition, it also happens to be quite treatable. Today’s heart doctors have multiple options for...
Atrial Fibrillation Medications
Recent decades have seen a blossoming of the science around controlling the dangerous form of irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation or “A-fib”. Pioneering physicians...