A surprising autopsy marked the first time a bony, supportive structure was documented in an adult human heart, medical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . People with obesity in young or middle adulthood have a greater chance of having adverse heart structure and ...

We believe the human heart evolved away from the trabeculated structure seen in the other great apes to enhance its ability to twist and contract more efficiently. This increased twisting motion, ...

Hispanic/Latina women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) -- conditions marked by high blood pressure during pregnancy -- are more likely to have abnormalities in their heart ...

Compared with men, women had a weaker negative association between waist-to-hip ratio and right ventricular end-diastolic volumes/end-systolic volumes. HealthDay News — Abdominal obesity is associated ...

Obesity is an established risk factor for heart disease; however, it remains unclear how fat deposition in obesity alters the structure and function of the heart in older adults. A new paper published ...

Type 2 diabetes quietly changes the heart structure and how it produces energy, thus increasing the risk of heart failure, according to a study. Researchers at the University of Sydney, Australia, ...

Artificial intelligence experts at Cedars-Sinai and the Smidt Heart Institute created a dataset with more than 1 million echocardiograms, or cardiac ultrasound videos, and their corresponding clinical ...

High blood pressure causes your heart's walls to thicken, which increases your risk of congestive heart failure (CHF).

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. The heart is the central organ of the human circulatory system. Both congenital and acquired structural ...

By: Demetrios Mallios, M.D., cardiothoracic surgeon, Children’s Heart Institute, Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital It’s easy to think your child is just worn out from a busy day when they seem ...