Cardiovascular Disorders and Diseases Articles

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Although death rates from cardiovascular disease have been slowly falling in most of the United States, they remain persistently high in the Midwest. One community did something about it.

Therapeutic hypothermia, the lowering of body temperature for prevention of brain damage, has been in use to treat patients who survive cardiac arrest. It helps to save lives by minimizing brain damage.

A study of 262,000 heart patients with implanted pacemakers and other cardiac devices found that remote monitoring saves lives.

Heart attacks don't just happen to men, but women do tend to experience different symptoms. Recognizing them could make the difference between life and death. Learn more about heart attack symptoms in women and preventative steps you can undertake.

Many unscrupulous Internet entrepreneurs promise new hearts after heart attacks with injections of stem cells, or even with nutritional supplements that are misrepsented as generating stem cells. But it turns out the body makes its own stem cells.

About 1 in 11 people who have high blood pressure has a condition known as resistant hypertension, which is high blood pressure that won't come down even with one, two, three, or sometimes ten medications. A new surgical procedure offers hope.

Men may have problems with erectile dysfunction years before heart disease is detected. Impotence can be an early warning sign that cardiovascular care is needed.

Every 34 seconds, someone in America has a heart attack. Find out if you could be next, and what you can do to avoid a heart attack.

Middle-aged men who take antidepressants, scientists presenting a paper at the scientific meeting of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans tell us, are at greater risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Are you at risk of a heart attack? It might be time to switch to Apple. The company is apparently expanding its market into life-saving medical devices.