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 ...

One study last year, for example, found that people with micro- and nano-plastics in fatty deposits in their main artery were more likely to experience a heart ... reduced blood flow in their ...

Possible causes of low blood pressure, or hypotension, range from dehydration to a heart condition. Drinking more water may help, but some people will need medication. Changing dietary habits may ...

In severe cases, hypotension can compromise blood flow to the organs, increasing the risk of heart attack or stroke. A blood pressure reading has two numbers, which people often call the upper ...

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

Combination pills include a diuretic and another type of blood pressure medication. These drugs block the effects of adrenaline in your body. That can keep your heart from beating too quickly or ...

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The blood then flows around the fish's body and back to the heart. This system might not be quite as efficient as a mammal's for getting oxygen around the body but that's okay for fish as they don ...

Ninety percent of the patients were receiving concurrent nephrotoxic antibiotics and 62% were receiving cyclosporine, but no significant changes in blood urea ... increases in heart rate and ...

the heart rate typically rises. It does so to try to compensate and provide blood flow to the body. For example, this is seen in hypovolemic shock caused by low blood volume. High blood pressure and ...

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 ...