The Latest Breaking News from Heart Disease

Catching up on lost sleep over the weekends might help offset sleep deficits from the week, and mitigate heart disease risk, the study suggests.

Planning on waking up early this weekend?

A study from Beijing found that people who used the weekends to catch up on sleep were 19 percent less likely to develop heart disease than those who didn't.

The UK capital’s efforts to combat air pollution and boost ‘active travel’ have been applauded in a new global ‘City Heartbeat Index’

The study suggests that every additional hour spent watching TV could increase the risk of heart disease by 26% in young adults.

Previous research showed those with heart disease could be helped by weight loss drug semaglutide

If you Google the terms “constipation” and “heart attack” it’s not long before the name Elvis Presley crops up. Elvis had a longstanding history of chronic constipation and it’s believed he was straining very hard to poo, which then led to a fatal heart attack.

Learn about Richard Simmons' cause of death and the circumstances surrounding his passing. Toxicology report showed no substances in his system.

People who have constipation face more than twice the risk of a major cardiac event when compared to those without the condition, the study revealed.

Public health experts from some of the nation’s leading research universities have deployed a massive medical trailer to rural parts of the South as part of an ambitious and unusual new health study

The study found that drinking more than 400 mg of caffeine most days raises the risk of heart disease in otherwise healthy individuals.