A new study revealed that men may reach cardiovascular heart disease risk significantly earlier than women. Here’s what was found.

Adults — especially women — who stay up late have a worse cardiovascular health score and a higher risk of heart attack or stroke, according to a new study.

Decades-long study suggests heart disease prevention and screening should happen sooner.

Deaths from heart disease and stroke are declining, but still kill more Americans than any other cause, according to new data from the American Heart Association (AHA). Rising obesity rates, diabetes,

ACM impedes the heart from pumping blood to the rest of the body, and is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people. The condition disproportionately affects athletes, who may push their hearts to the limit during intense exercise, unaware that they have the condition.

When the heart's muscle is weakened or injured due to a heart attack, it can make it hard for the heart to pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.

So, he and his colleagues induced heart attacks in mice and examined responses in the vagus nerve, which carries signals between the brain, heart and digestive system. After a heart attack, vagus nerve fibers containing certain cells, called TRPV1-expressing neurons, wrapped around the injured area of the heart, the team found.