A spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, leads to bleeding inside the artery wall. A survivor shares her symptoms.

New research shows that women who hit menopause later in life have healthier blood vessels and mitochondria and a different composition of metabolites in their blood than those who stop menstruating ...

People with very few risk factors can still have heart attacks - and some even can suffer from them without realising ...

The optimal performance of the cardiovascular system, as well as the break-down of this performance with disease, both involve complex biomechanical interactions between the heart ... the shape of ...

They can be associated with arrhythmias, blood clots, and heart failure. The right atrium has a function in both the flow of blood through the heart, as well as in the heart's electrical system. In ...

Secondly, an artificial valve can create “turbulence” in the blood flowing through your heart, meaning that the blood doesn’t flow quite as smoothly as it does with a natural valve. This creates ...

Twenty-four hours after surgery, whole mouse blood was harvested. Blood was centrifuged (6,000 ... The column was then washed by running buffer for 3 times, the effluent containing unlabeled Ly6G- ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) -- commonly known as bad cholesterol -- have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor to heart disease. But these microscopic troublemakers have hidden ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL)—commonly known as bad cholesterol—have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor ...

Recent research reported that women with endometriosis have an approximately 20% increased risk for stroke and a 35% greater risk for heart attack compared with women without endometriosis. Although ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Alternative splicing (AS), a critical process for gene expression regulation, allows a single precursor ...

Historically, devotion to the Heart of Mary grew up in parallel, but at a lesser intensity than that of devotion to the Heart of Jesus, only starting to become more prominent during the time of St ...