A long list of Lynda Hollander's paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause ...

Editor's Note: This article is made possible through a sponsored content partnership with New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Most people don’t know they have coronary artery disease until they have ...

The coronary artery supplies blood to the heart. If calcium builds up in the coronary artery, it can lead to coronary artery disease and increase a person’s risk of a heart attack. Calcium is the most ...

STANFORD, Calif. — A new, noninvasive diagnostic test for coronary artery disease is associated with a higher rate of subsequent invasive cardiac procedures and higher health-care spending. That's ...

The recently updated National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline, Peripheral arterial disease: diagnosis and management, aims to resolve the uncertainty and variation that has ...

The FDA gave HeartFlow de novo clearance Monday for its FFRCT technology, the first and only noninvasive imaging technology for coronary artery disease (CAD) that shows the extent of a blockage and ...

Rising blood levels of a protein called hematoma derived growth factor (HDGF) are linked to the increasing severity of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a form of damaging high blood pressure in the ...

Researchers have found that a novel blood test can be used to easily evaluate disease severity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and predict survivability. PAH is a rare, ...

IT has been known for many years that obstruction to one or both renal arteries in man could result in hypertension (the Goldblatt kidney). Many patients suspected of this disorder have, in the past, ...