Anxiety and heart attacks may cause many of the same symptoms, including chest pain or tightness and difficulty breathing. Here's how to get help.

Over the last decade, heart failure has risen by more than 900% when it comes to mortality in adults under the age of 45.

It’s a relatively simple maneuver, but it has the potential to reveal clues about a possible heart issue. So what exactly does the “thumb test” entail, and what should people know about it? Below, ...

Is your heart older than you are? A free, newly developed online calculator may be able to tell you, according to a large-scale study of heart health published Wednesday in JAMA Cardiology. Based on ...

Time for a heart-to-heart. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US, killing more Americans than cancer and unintentional injuries — including car crashes, falls and overdoses — ...

By age 17, most people’s heart health scores — which consider lifestyle factors like diet and exercise, as well as clinical ...

Your heart may be aging differently than the rest of you. And, for many Americans, their hearts might be even a decade older than their actual age, new research suggests. Heart disease is the leading ...

A new study shows that your heart might be aging faster than the rest of you. Researchers looked at more than 14,000 people between the ages of 30 and 79 and found most have a so-called “heart age” ...

Many people have a heart that’s biologically at least a decade older than their chronological age, a new study suggests. A new study used a heart age calculator to determine the biological age of ...

The President's "cardiac age" has been reported to be 14 years younger than his chronological age. What does this mean, and who can get this test?