The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Growing evidence shows that building muscle strength can have benefits for your heart, even leading to better outcomes after a heart attack. Having a higher level of leg muscle strength appears to be ...

Abdominal fat is linked to changes in heart structure that can contribute to heart failure, German researchers reported in a ...

New study reveals "beer bellies" increase heart damage risk even in people with normal weight, challenging traditional views ...

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...

Share on Pinterest Muscle fat may increase heart disease risk more than subcutaneous fat, a new study warns. Image credit: Hispanolistic/Getty Images. Heart disease is the number one killer in the ...

Heart attack, a sudden blockage of blood flow to the heart muscle, differs from chronic cardiac failure, where the heart weakens and struggles to pump blood effectively. While a heart attack is an ...

“The two respiratory viruses (COVID and flu) look very different in the hearts of these patients.” Now, a new study in the scientific journal Immunology uses a technique known as spatial ...

Women who report high levels of psychosocial stress, such as from caregiving and lack of emotional support, show signs of ...

Researchers have shown that cardiac scar tissue (fibroblasts) can be directly reprogrammed to heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) in mice. By treating mice post-heart attack with a virus carrying ...