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Heart Disease and The Doctor's Exam

Systolic blood pressure: The pressure in your arteries when the heart squeezes (the higher number). Diastolic blood pressure: The pressure in your ...

What You Should Do After a Heart Attack

If yours doesn’t, your doctor may refer you to a heart center that runs one. If you smoke, the single most important thing you can do -- not just f...

Heart Disease Treatment with Angioplasty and Stents

Balloon: A catheter with a small balloon tip is guided to the narrowing in your artery. Once in place, the balloon is inflated to push the plaque a...

What to Know: Pericardial Effusion

A pericardial effusion is excess fluid between the heart and the sac surrounding the heart, known as the pericardium. In most cases, inflammation o...

ACE Inhibitors and Heart Disease

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are heart medications that widen, or dilate, your blood vessels. While taking them, have your doctor...

Symptoms of Heart Disease

Like valve disease, heart failure symptoms may not be related to how weak your heart is. Many people with heart muscle disease, or cardiomyopathy, ...

Heart Disease and Pericarditis

Pericarditis can be acute (occurring suddenly) or chronic (long-standing).

Get Moving for a Healthier Heart

The American Heart Association recommends you work up to exercising on most days of the week. The more exercise you can do, the healthier you -- an...

Heart Disease and Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a medical condition in which the heart's ability to pump blood is lessened because its main pumping chamber, the le...

What is Atrial Fibrillation?

Your doctor has treatments to put your heart back into a normal rhythm and prevent complications. Untreated AFib and valve disease each make you mo...

What You Need to Know About Assisted Living

The following questions will help you and your family to evaluate assisted living facilities. Print out these questions and have them answered befo...

Vegetarian and Vegan Diets Explained

The simplest definition of vegetarianism is a diet free of meat, fish, and fowl flesh. Flexitarians refer to vegetarians who occasionally eat meat ...