But one-quarter of heart-attack sufferers experience different symptoms or no symptoms. Some learn they’ve had a heart attack (myocardial infarction, or MI) when a test performed for another reason reveals the damage. Others find out when they develop symptoms of heart failure, such as shortness of breath or leg swelling, or an arrhythmia (palpitations or fainting).
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Love them or hate them, these drugs help prevent blood clots inside stents.
If you have a drug-eluting stent (DES), the combination of two common antiplatelet drugs is lessening the chance that a heart attack-causing blood clot will form inside the stent. The drug regimen, known as dual-antiplatelet therapy, or DAPT, includes low-dose aspirin plus...
Heart Failure
Learning the symptoms and acting quickly could save your life.
Bacteria are everywhere, and from time to time they make us sick. Yet few people become alarmed when bacteria settle in their throat or lungs. After a few days of antibiotics, their sore throat or flu-like symptoms disappear, and they feel fine.
Risks and Symptoms
Normal blood sugar levels may protect your brain as well as your heart.
Most people diagnosed with insulin resistance or diabetes know that tight control over their blood sugar levels can help reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, as well as blindness, loss of kidney function and problems in the feet and legs leading to amputation.
Your Heart and Other Conditions
“Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one reason some men can’t achieve an erection,” says Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Michael Rocco, MD. “In men ages 40 to 70 who have no symptoms of heart trouble, ED is an independent risk factor for a heart attack within about...
Risks and Symptoms
Physical exertion and panic are common reasons for shortness of breath. But the symptom, which doctors call dyspnea, can also signal a problem with the heart.
Your Heart and Other Conditions
At the center of this battle is oxygen, which combines with the food we eat to produce energy—a good thing. However, the metabolic process also creates dangerous byproducts known as oxygen free radicals.
Risks and Symptoms
The Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest diets for preventing cardiovascular disease, but a vegetarian diet may also be a good choice. A recent meta-analysis of 11 vegetarian diet trials found significant lowering of total and LDL cholesterol levels, but not triglycerides.
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Results of a long-term study of male physicians found no association between the development of heart failure and cancer. Researchers analyzed more than 28,000 patients who were disease-free when they enrolled in one of three clinical trials. After a median of 19.9 years, 1,420 of...
Your Heart and Other Conditions
Most people know the classic symptoms of heart attack: pain in the left or center of the chest often described as heaviness, tightness or pressure, which can radiate to the jaw or left arm and may be accompanied by shortness of breath, sweating and nausea.
