Traditionally, most heart attacks have been blamed on clogged arteries causing atherothrombosis – where blood clots block ...

Black people in the United States have lower rates of heart disease than white people. But they tend to develop it earlier and have worse outcomes. Socioeconomic factors and higher rates of underlying ...

Te’Jaan Ali was playing basketball in a school gym on the South Side of Chicago when he started feeling hot. The heat in the gym — which didn’t have air conditioning — was likely just as bad as the ...

Signs of heart disease in women differ from the classic chest pain seen in men. Spotting these signs can help you get better ...

Although the precise mechanism isn’t yet known, factors like sex chromosomes and hormones, particularly the protective ...

Diffuse coronary artery disease is a subtype of coronary artery disease (CAD) in which larger sections of coronary arteries have a high plaque buildup. It is less common than focal CAD and can be more ...

Air pollution has been linked to more severe heart disease, and there's a notable difference between men and women, according to a new study ...