Taking blood pressure while lying down could result in more accurate readings, new research from the American Heart Association finds. Experts explain findings.
New research presented at an American Heart Association conference shows that blood pressure tends to increase winter, and is more poorly controlled in cold weather.
New research found that a majority of heart attack and stroke survivors report having high cholesterol. Nearly half of those survivors are unaware that low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL cholesterol) is “bad" cholesterol.
In a phase 1 clinical trial, the experimental drug muvalaplin successfully lowered the levels of a previously untreatable form of bad cholesterol, lipoprotein(a).
A new study found that half of people experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest had a telling symptom 24 hours beforehand, and these warning signs are different between men and women.