For years, the magic number of 10,000 steps has been the undisputed champion of fitness goals, printed on health apps and trackers worldwide. But what if this widely accepted metric is missing the ...

Angie Loving, a University of Kansas employee, survived a widowmaker heart attack on Nov. 14, 2019. Loving, now 47, is pictured in her Olathe home on Feb. 4, 2021. Something in the back of the 46-year ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A new study has been published that links the increase in heart attacks amongst adults between the ages of 25 and 44 to COVID-19. The study was conducted by the Smidt Heart ...

Heart attack cases — which earlier were seen largely in adults — have now registered a sharp rise among people in their 40s and even younger individuals. The spike in cases has triggered panic, with ...

Jan. 11 (UPI) --A decade-long decline in the lead levels of American Indians' blood has resulted in reduced blood pressure and heart failure, new research from the National Institutes of Health ...

Sleep deprivation doesn’t just leave you tired—it might be setting the stage for serious heart problems. While many people view sleep as optional when life gets busy, research increasingly shows that ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. On Sunday, the Journal-World ran a story about a woman ...

Jolting awake with your heart absolutely pounding is alarming whether you remember having nightmares or seemingly waking up from nothing without explanation. Your mind immediately considers cardiac ...

"When we blocked this estrogen receptor, we were expecting to see changes and damage largely to the heart. But rather than seeing a dramatic heart phenotype, what we saw was an adiposity phenotype. So ...