The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke is a data-rich tool anyone can use to examine the cardiovascular disease burden in ...

If you're having heart attack symptoms and have access to aspirin, take a full dose of 325 mg after calling the ambulance, ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a graph worth? For doctors trying to determine whether a patient's blood pressure is within normal range, the answer may depend on the type of graph ...

For example, this is seen in hypovolemic shock caused by low blood volume. High blood pressure and high heart rate can be seen with exercise and emotional stress. This is because the sympathetic ...

They are not safe for men with untreated high blood pressure. They are also not safe for men taking alpha-blockers, or men taking nitrate drugs for heart disease.

Unmanaged diabetes isn’t the only health factor that increases the risk for high blood pressure. Your chances of having a heart attack or stroke increase significantly if you have any of the ...

yonsei.ac.kr Objective The purpose of this study was to analyse the association between resting heart rate (RHR) and type 2 diabetes and hypertension in Korean adults. Methods A total of 5124 ...

Aortic coarctation (AoC) is a common congenital heart defect, affecting 5%–8% of patients with structural congenital anomalies. Despite advances in surgical and percutaneous interventions, ...

The roentgenologic examination of the heart in patients with normal pressures or mild pulmonary hypertension revealed either a normal cardiac silhouette or straightening of the left border of the ...

Longitudinal studies consistently show that living in safe neighborhoods is associated with a reduced hypertension risk, with a stronger protective effect observed in women, younger adults, and those ...

The minimum ‘indicative’ prevalence for all forms of PHT is 326 cases/100 000 inhabitants of the local population, with left heart disease-associated PHT being the commonest cause (250 cases/100 000).