The new report examined numbers from 2023, the latest year for which data were available. Deaths from cardiovascular diseases totaled 916,000, including about 680,000 deaths from heart disease and 180 ...

More people die from heart disease and stroke than from anything else in the United States, despite a five-year decline, a ...

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After more than a century of battling heart disease as the number one killer of Americans, you would think we’d know all about it. For a good part of the 20th century, cardiologists thought they had ...

Heart disease is a type of cardiovascular disease that affects the heart’s structure and function. Several different heart conditions fall under the umbrella term for heart disease. The most common ...

A University of Houston pharmacology researcher and expert in cardiac development has identified a new cause of—and repair ...

Together, heart disease and stroke accounted for more than a quarter of all deaths in the United States in 2023, according to the 2026 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics report. Heart disease was ...

However, accumulating evidence over the past two decades demonstrates that a biomarker called C-reactive protein — which ...

These two conditions affect how well your heart can pump blood. Cardiomyopathy can sometimes lead to heart failure. Cardiomyopathy and heart failure are both conditions in which your heart has a more ...

Swollen ankles are often overlooked, but they can be an early warning sign of heart failure, a condition where the heart cannot pump blood effectively. One of the most visible symptoms of heart ...

Following a five-year upward trend likely impacted by the COVID pandemic, the number of heart disease and stroke deaths has declined, yet, heart disease and stroke still kill more people in the U.S.