If you’re considering an exercise stress test or other cardiac tests, here are a few basics to keep in mind: EXERCISE STRESS TEST (also called treadmill test, exercise test and exercise cardiac stress ...

What is a heart blockage? It simply means the heart may not work well. Cleveland Clinic reports a heart blockage can happen when your heart beats slowly or skips beats, and in severe cases, it can ...

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Theresa Miller was undergoing some routine tests at the Live Well Clinic in La Quinta, California, when her naturopathic doctor, Dr. Nicole Ortiz, decided to run a new blood test on her. Ortiz wanted ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute and collaborators have developed and validated a new genetic risk test that can estimate a person's inherited risk for eight common ...

Doctors use cardiac imaging to diagnose many types of heart disease and heart problems, including cardiovascular disease (which includes stroke and high blood pressure) and coronary heart disease.

This week Color Genomics took the wraps off its first cardiovascular test for hereditary high cholesterol disorder —Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH), a condition which increases the likelihood of ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham have validated a polygenic risk score that estimates inherited risk for eight cardiovascular conditions, offering a more comprehensive prevention tool. The test, ...

The tool uses a "polygenic risk score" (PRS) that combines information from hundreds of thousands of common genetic variants ...

Apolipoprotein B, or Apo B, is a protein that carries cholesterol in our blood. Cholesterol is a fatty substance produced by the liver, and some foods — like fried food and processed meat — can ...

People affected by anxiety and depression should receive an additional cardiac test when undergoing diagnosis for potential heart problems, according to a new study by researchers in Canada. People ...

Heart disease is the world’s leading cause of mortality, comprising 32% of all deaths. But that doesn’t mean people are powerless against the condition — there are some steps they can take to help ...