Financial stress may age your heart as much as high blood pressure or smoking. Financial strain and food insecurity were the ...

Whether it is a break-up that comes out of the blue, being diagnosed with a serious illness or a terrible conflict: when life pulls the rug out from under our feet, that creates enormous stress.It can ...

​A CARDIOTHORACIC surgeon warned Friday that heartbreak — or severe emotional stress — can have an adverse effect on health. ​Dr. Avenilo Aventura Jr., director II of the Philippine Heart Association, ...

Broken Heart Syndrome, or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is a real condition where intense stress can trigger heart attack-like ...

Your “heart age” can also increase your risk. Due to stress, poor nutrition, lack of exercise, environmental factors, injuries, genetics and more, your “heart age” may be older than the age on your ...

Symptoms are typically treatable, and the condition can reverse itself in just weeks. But in rare cases, it can be deadly.

Prediabetes combined with subclinical myocardial injury or stress significantly increases heart failure risk in adults with hypertension.

That deadline pressure at work, traffic jam on your commute, or family conflict might be doing more than just ruining your day—it could be damaging your heart. While occasional stress is part of ...

A spike in cardiac events in Super Bowl team cities could be linked to supercharged emotions during and after the game, researchers say.

New research published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings has shown that patients who can complete a workout on a treadmill during a cardiac stress test have much lower mortality risk than those ...

One of the strongest predictors of long-term mortality among patients undergoing a cardiac stress test is the need for a pharmacologic versus treadmill test, new data show. Moreover, although the risk ...

Heart attack survivor Susan Smith shares her story and advocates for heart health awareness during American Heart Month.