A large new study using advanced imaging found that abdominal obesity, sometimes referred to as a "beer belly," is associated with more harmful changes in heart structure than overall body weight ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . People with obesity in young or middle adulthood have a greater chance of having adverse heart structure and ...
New findings on how the human heart adapts to expressive music features, like loudness or tempo, could lay the foundations for targeted music-based "exercises" to support heart health. Led by King's ...
Hispanic/Latina women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) -- conditions marked by high blood pressure during pregnancy -- are more likely to have abnormalities in their heart ...
Phase II ARCHER trial showed a significant reduction in left ventricular (LV) mass (p=0.0117) and improvements in multiple key cardiac MRI (CMR) measures of structural heart recovery in patients with ...
High blood pressure causes your heart's walls to thicken, which increases your risk of congestive heart failure (CHF).
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have determined the full-length structure of a blood pressure-regulating hormone receptor for the first time, uncovering how it functions, which may enable better ...
Compared with men, women had a weaker negative association between waist-to-hip ratio and right ventricular end-diastolic volumes/end-systolic volumes. HealthDay News — Abdominal obesity is associated ...
Increase in waist-to-hip ratio linked to higher left ventricular mass and lower ventricular volumes. (HealthDay News) — Abdominal obesity is associated with more harmful changes to heart structure ...