Items Tagged with 'Heart disease'

Here’s an incentive to take the stairs or speed up that next floor-sweeping session: Incidental activities like these could help lower your risk for heart disease.

Climbing 50 stairs a day is all it takes to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease by more than 20%, Tulane University researchers say.

Québec City — Men who experience high levels of work-related stress and feel underappreciated at work may be twice as likely to develop heart disease than those who don’t.

University Park, PA — Using weekends to catch up on the sleep you didn’t get during the workweek isn’t a heart-healthy strategy, a new study claims.

Using an AED along with CPR improves the odds of surviving a heart attack – even when an ambulance is just minutes away, results of a recent study suggest.

Gaithersburg, MD — Recently developed artificial intelligence software can determine whether firefighters may be about to experience a potentially fatal cardiac event, researchers say.

Aberdeen, Scotland — Workers who are compensated based on their performance are at higher risk for heart disease, chronic stress and poor mental health, results of a recent study show.

Do you take long naps? If so, you may have an increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation – an abnormal heart rhythm that can trigger serious health problems.

People who have cardiac devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators “can be reassured that charging electric cars with high-power chargers is safe,” European researchers are saying.

If you struggle to get quality sleep, you may be at increased risk of heart disease, results of a recent study suggest.