Heart problems aren’t only for the old. Nearly 6.7 million Americans over the age of 20 are living with heart failure — yet ...

The average person’s heart beats about 2.5 billion times over their lifetime, providing a continuous supply of oxygen and other nutrients to the brain and other vital organs. As people age, even a ...

More than 6 million U.S. adults — most over the age of 60 — are living with heart failure.¹If you or someone you care about has heart failure, you may already know it’s a chronic but manageable ...

Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalizations in people older than 65. Most seniors who experience heart failure already have a prior history of chronic cardiovascular disease. This is why it ...

Millions of people worldwide are living with undiagnosed heart rhythm disorders that can lead to stroke, heart failure or ...

Decompensated heart failure (DHF) means that symptoms from heart failure are severe enough to require immediate medical attention. Dyspnea or shortness of breath is the most common symptom of DHF.

In Northern Ireland, 23,000 people are currently affected by the condition.

When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized 11 times. She had been born with two rare heart abnormalities, Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

A group of heart failure patients has embarked on a more than 100 miles cycling challenge to raise awareness of severe heart failure ...

Diastolic heart failure means there’s a problem with your heart’s ability to fill with blood. It’s a type of congestive heart failure where your heart cannot work efficiently, leading to fluid ...