Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women - for about 1 in 5 women - in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 60 million American ...

ATLANTA — West Virginia and Kentucky have the nation’s highest levels of heart disease, according to a first-of-its-kind study released by U.S. health officials Thursday. The new research is the first ...

Nearly a third of U.S. teens are prediabetic, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2023, a count found that an estimated 8.4 million adolescents between the ...

In 2022, more than 941,600 Americans died from cardiovascular disease. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new report. The American Heart Association ...

Signs of heart disease in women differ from the classic chest pain seen in men. Spotting these signs can help you get better ...

A new clinical study reveals that taking cocoa extract supplements daily may significantly lower inflammation and reduce ...

The condition that mammograms can detect — and act as an early warning of heart problems down the road — is called breast arterial calcification, said Matthew Nudy, an assistant professor of medicine ...

The US Food and Drug Administration will now require Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to use expanded warning labels with more information about the risk of a rare heart condition ...

The CDC Foundation has added muscle to its “Live to the Beat” campaign, enlisting former NFL star Jerome “The Bus” Bettis to drive home its message about heart disease in the Black community. Building ...

COVID-19 can not only exacerbate existing heart problems, but cause new ones. As the coronavirus pandemic rapidly evolved into a public health crisis of global proportions, doctors and scientists ...