In summer heat, can some heart meds increase heart attack risks?
Every day, millions of Americans with coronary disease take beta blockers to lower the risk of heart attacks. Millions more take statins...
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7 cardiac procedures you might be better off skipping
During the almost half-century since stress EKGs earned clinical acceptance, many additional procedures have become standard procedures...
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Make Daylight Savings Time easier on your heart
Daylight Savings Time starts just a week from now, on Sunday, March 13. And for the more than 2.7 million Americans with some form of...
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Does an aspirin a day really keep heart attacks away?
On the basis of 40-year-old research, millions of people in their 40s and older take a low-dose (81-100 mg) aspirin tablet every day as a...
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Many signs of a heart attack aren’t this obvious
The most obvious sign of a heart attack is intense chest pain, as if an elephant were sitting on your chest. It’s also the most prevalent...
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Can COVID-19 cause heart attack deaths?
In a few cases, yes. But many, many more deaths are caused by the fear of the coronavirus. “Nearly everyone dying of COVID-19 has...
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Depression can be heartbreaking. Literally.
COVID-19 notwithstanding, the number one cause of death in the United States is heart disease. And one of the leading causes of heart...
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