Sex and Heart Disease
Like most everybody else, people with heart disease spend a lot of time thinking about sex. But if your heart’s in trouble, those thoughts can turn dark. You may worry that sex could finish you off. You may also wonder what happened to your desire. If…
Learn MoreChances of walking after a stroke: How long does it take?
Post stroke mobility loss can lead to difficulty walking after a stroke and having to learn to walk again. Check out this post about regaining balance and mobility and how long it takes to walk after a stroke.
Within minutes, a stroke can ravage your…
Target Heart Rate and Exercise
How fast should my heart be beating? If you’re an adult, your heart should beat somewhere between 50 and 90 times per minute when you’re resting, regardless of your age or sex. If you’re a super-fit athlete, your heartbeat may be as low as 40 or 50 be…
Learn MoreStress Test
What is a stress test? There’s nothing like a good workout to find out how fit you really are. You may feel like a champion in your armchair fantasies, but playing a set of tennis can tell a different story. Likewise, you don’t know how well your hear…
Learn MoreExercise Tips and 10 Exercises to lower high blood pressure
Researchers have spent decades developing new treatments for high blood pressure, but exercise is still one of the best remedies around. A single workout can reduce blood pressure for an entire day, and regular exercise can keep the pressure down fo…
Learn MoreAthletic Heart Syndrome
What is athletic heart syndrome? Athletic heart syndrome is a heart condition that may occur in people who exercise or train for more than an hour a day, most days of the week. Athletic heart syndrome isn’t necessarily bad for you — if you’re an at…
Learn MoreHormone Replacement Therapy: An Ongoing Controversy
By Sarah HenryIt was big news in 2002 when researchers called a halt to a major government-run study of a hormone therapy used by millions of older women. Researchers stopped the study, one of a series of clinical trials under the Women’s Health Initi…
Learn MoreInfective Endocarditis: What It Is, Symptoms and Treatments
TUESDAY, April 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Imagine getting your tooth extracted and a bacterial infection develops afterwards that travels down to your heart.Known as infective endocarditis, or bacterial endocarditis, it happens more often than you m…
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