Heart attacks don’t just happen out of nowhere. While they can feel sudden and shocking, they’re usually the result of conditions and lifestyle factors that build up over years or even decades.

It seems more and more young people are dying of heart attacks/disease. When I was growing up (1960-70) a heart attack was an older person's disease. Today I'm hearing of people in their 30s and 40s ...

“This evolution over the past 50 years reflects incredible successes in the way heart attacks and other... heart [diseases] are managed,” the study read Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

When most people think of a heart attack, they imagine a blocked artery causing sudden, severe symptoms. But for many women, ...

The study reveals that widely used heart-attack risk calculators fail to flag nearly half of those who will soon experience a ...

But research suggests that while heart attack rates have declined in older adults, they’ve increased in those under age 40, especially among women. And a new study is revealing some potential hidden ...

HEART failure can be hard to spot because its symptoms can be subtle and easily mistaken for normal signs of ageing or ...

In 1970, someone over the age of 65 hospitalized for a heart attack in the United States had about a 60% chance of leaving the hospital alive. Today, the survival rate is over 90%, with even better ...

Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at ...

What feels like routine stress could actually be your heart’s early cry for help. Cardiologist Dr Jack Wolfson highlights 5 ...

There's more to worry about this winter than a runny nose and slippery roads. — -- Fluffy, white snow may be the stuff of holiday greeting cards but, to cardiologists, it's a heart attack waiting ...

I got the worst text message of my life from a stranger. — -- I was waiting for my husband to come home for dinner when I got the text message every spouse fears. It was from Sean's number, but ...