Even women who felt well before pregnancy may begin to notice symptoms around 28 to 30 weeks, when the cardiovascular system reaches its peak workload.

As the population ages, the American Heart Association now projects 6 in 10 adults will have cardiovascular disease by 2050 ...

MONTH AND TOMORROW IS HEART VALVE DISEASE AWARENESS DAY. SO RIGHT NOW I’M JOINED BY DOCTOR ARUN KUMAR REDDY WHO IS A CARDIOLOGIST AT UPMC. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ...

Heart valve disease is much more common in aging adults that has been thought, a new study warns. More than a quarter of healthy and symptom-free people aged 60 and older had previously undetected ...

Take this news to heart. You could have a common condition that increases your risk of heart attack and stroke — and not even know it. More than a quarter of “healthy” adults over 60 have undiagnosed ...

Surgery is usually the best fix for a severe heart valve disease. Different types of heart valve blockages can happen, and surgery is necessary to fix these problems. Your heart is split into four ...

Unlike traditional heart disease, a UVA Health expert says lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise and smoking do not play a significant role in preventing heart valve disease.

This breakthrough, which is a first in the Triad, offers a new option for patients with severe tricuspid regurgitation, a ...

A multisociety taskforce has created a method for standardizing how patient outcomes are reported for heart valve disease (HVD), regardless of which valve is being treated and how. The objectives, the ...