Cardiovascular diseases include conditions that affect the structures or function of your heart or blood vessels. Learn more about the types of cardiovascular diseases and their treatments.

Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of heart disease-related death, but deaths from heart disease have still been ...

Research shows heart attack deaths have plummeted by nearly 90% since 1970, while deaths from heart failure and arrhythmias ...

Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease—despite stricter ...

Thanks to medical advancements, heart attack deaths have dropped nearly 90% in the last 50 years. But deaths from these ...

Left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease can lead to what's known as a "widowmaker" heart attack, so-called because of the ...

Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease – despite stricter ...

The study says deaths from cardiovascular disease rose from more than 836,000 in 2015 to more than 840,000 in 2016. Findings were published in the peer-reviewed AHA journal Circulation.

Researchers identified the cause of increased cardiovascular risk in N1-methyl-4-pyridone-3-carboxamide (4PY), a niacin metabolite. They argue that 4PY increases cardiovascular risk through an ...

Disparities in heart disease risk and care 02:17. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States — and new projections find it may become even more ...