These conditions are very common and carry a heavy burden. Because SHD makes the heart work harder to pump blood, or restricts flow through the body, it can lead to many complications ...

Your heart first pumps blood to your lungs. Here, the blood picks up oxygen from the air that you have breathed in. The blood (carrying oxygen) then travels back to your heart. The heart gives the ...

They then close to keep blood from leaking back in the wrong direction. The heart's chambers and valves all work together to keep blood flowing in one direction. The heart valve can calcify and cause ...

I suffered a cardiac arrest at work in February. Thankfully, my heart was restarted by paramedics with CPR and a defibrillator. I was in a coma for two days and in a critical care unit for six days.

Hello. I'm Dr. Sandra Fryhofer. Welcome to Medicine Matters. The topic: shift work. And increased risk of heart attack. A new study in the British Medical Journal[1]. Here is why it matters.

work-related stress affects approximately 77% of the US working population. A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association in October 2024 sought to determine whether this ...