Your heartbeat can provide valuable clues to help you stay well. Here’s what top cardiologists want you to know about it.

A lower resting heart rate indicates an efficient heart and a higher level of parasympathetic activity. When you’re at rest, your nervous system ideally minimizes sympathetic activity, so you’re ...

Doctors say when it's this cold outside, our bodies are working extra to maintain their core temperature. Blood vessels ...

Everybody has natural rhythm. Call it your inner drummer--the heartbeat keeps time for the rest of the body. But what happens if your beat's too fast or slow? In medical terms, that's called cardiac ...

M odern smart watches can measure an array of health indicators. Step counts and heart rates sit at the simpler end, while ...

Feeling your heart race can be an unsettling experience. Whether it happens during a moment of stress, excitement or seemingly out of nowhere, a racing heartbeat is often dismissed as just a temporary ...

If you own a wearable fitness tracker, you've likely seen a category referring to your resting heart rate. As the name implies, it measures the number of times your heart beats per minute while you're ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Most people think the heart starts to lose its spark as you age, but researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC say otherwise. In a healthy heart, a natural ...

Experts say money problems could increase your heart's age at a rate similar to, or more than, the traditional risk factors.