Imagine walking into an emergency room with crushing chest pain, an abnormal ECG, and blood tests showing your heart is under stress, the classic signature of a heart attack. But for a small percentage of patients, especially older women, the... Continue Reading →
A University of Bristol study found that aerobic exercise reshapes the stellate ganglia — the nerve clusters that help control heart rate — very differently on the left and right sides of the body, challenging the idea that exercise affects the nervous system symmetrically.
Heart attack survivors who carry excess fat around their waist are at increased risk of another heart attack, according to research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 Prior studies... Continue Reading →