Regional Variation Seen in Heart Disease Rate
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West Virginia and Kentucky, states known for high levels of obesity, diabetes and smoking, have the highest proportion of people with heart disease, officials said.
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The sharp drop-off in UK heart disease deaths in recent decades may owe much more to prevention than to advances in treatment, a new study suggests.
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Lifestyle changes, new drugs and treatment advances were equally responsible for a dramatic drop in U.S. heart disease deaths during the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. and British researchers reported on Wednesday.
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A recent German study has found that people prone to a heart attack face triple their usual risk as a result of traffic, whether they are in cars, on bicycles or on mass transit.
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Children who are abused or neglected grow up to be adults with a significantly greater risk of heart disease, a new study says. It&#39;s the first study to show a direct link between a wide range of childhood
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Cape Town - It is not only obese men in developed countries who fall prey to heart disease due to stress. Nowadays, even women and children run the risk of dying from heart failure or a stroke.
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The people of eastern Finland are famous for being ill. They have the dubious distinction of having one of the highest rates of heart disease in the world.
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Salim Yusuf crisscrossed the globe for nine years in his hunt for heart-attack causes. In Canada, his research had repeatedly found that certain ethnic groups seemed more susceptible to certain conditions, heart disease in particular.
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India have the dubious distinction of having the most number of casualties from heart attacks and strokes in the world. A report, Atlas of Heart Diseases and Stroke, released by the World Health Organisation
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Obese children and those at risk for obesity show early signs of heart disease -- similar to that seen in obese adults, U.S. researchers say.
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(WebMD) Heart researchers say nine risk factors - ones that you can do something about â-ccount for 90% of all heart attacks. Previously, researchers thought that only about half of heart attacks were
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Residents of poor neighborhoods are experiencing alarming rates of diabetes and steady increases in other chronic illnesses like heart disease, while other residents have seen slower increases or even declines.
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NEW YORK  - The risk of developing coronary   heart disease (CHD) among U.S. adults did not changed much   during roughly the last decade, report researchers from the   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta in Journal   of the American College of Cardiology this month.
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A study in Australia has shown that  changes occur in blood vessels in the eyes of heavier and obese  children from as young as six, warning signs that might be  linked to cardiovascular disease in later life.
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Among men with symptoms of  heart disease, those who are obese tend to live longer than  their normal-weight counterparts, a new study suggests.
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A recent survey found that two  out of three African Americans worry about developing heart  disease and two out of five are concerned about developing  Alzheimer's disease, yet only one in 20 are aware that heart  health is linked to brain health.
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People with more bacteria in their mouths also have more evidence of heart disease, researchers said on Monday in a study strengthening the evidence for a link between gum disease and heart disease.