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Vascular Disease

Vascular disease is any condition that affects the network of your blood vessels. Vascular diseases range from problems with your arteries, veins, ...

Risk Factors for Heart Disease

Even if you don’t smoke, constant exposure to other people’s cigarette smoke (secondhand smoke) raises your risk of heart disease. About 67 million...

What is An Aneurysm?

If you get an aneurysm, it means you have a bulge in the wall of an artery. Also known as a berry aneurysm, you get this kind in the wall of a bloo...

What is Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia?

If your symptoms don’t get better, your doctor might suggest a procedure called catheter ablation. This is when doctors use small radio waves to de...

Heart Disease and Pacemakers

A pacemaker is a small device that sends electrical impulses to the heart muscle to maintain a suitable heart rate and rhythm. The pacemaker may ha...

Toni Braxton's Microvascular Angina: FAQ

23, 2008 - Just before starting the demanding Dancing with the Stars competition, singer Toni Braxton came down with a new heart problem: microvasc...

What You Should Know: Myocarditis

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle (myocardium). An autoimmune disease that causes inflammation throughout your body, like lupus or rh...

LDL Cholesterol

LDL cholesterol is often called the “bad” cholesterol because it collects in the walls of your blood vessels, raising your chances of health proble...

Understanding Heart Failure -- The Basics

Heart failure is a condition in which the heart can't pump blood effectively to the lungs or the rest of the body.

Glossary of Heart Failure Terms

Diastolic Pressure: The pressure of the blood in the arteries when the heart is filling. This can lead to heart failure, irregular heart beats, blo...

Heart Disease and The Doctor's Exam

Systolic blood pressure: The pressure in your arteries when the heart squeezes (the higher number). Diastolic blood pressure: The pressure in your ...

Treatment Options When Heart Failure Worsens

In particular, we use the term 'Guideline Medical Therapy' to describe medications that have clearly been shown to improve survival, make people li...