Microplastics can raise heart disease risk in men by burrowing into arteries, study finds - Researchers say study provides ...

Traditionally, most heart attacks have been blamed on clogged arteries causing atherothrombosis – where blood clots block ...

You can detect blocked arteries early by identifying atherosclerosis. It is a condition where plaque builds up inside the arteries.

Arteries can become blocked over many decades, before resulting in conditions that can become severe quickly. (Getty Images) Heart problems are very common in the UK, with around 7.6 million people ...

Although the precise mechanism isn’t yet known, factors like sex chromosomes and hormones, particularly the protective ...

Clogged heart arteries, medically known as coronary artery disease, represent one of the most serious cardiovascular conditions affecting millions of people worldwide. When arteries that supply blood ...

The right coronary artery supplies blood to a part of the heart. To do this effectively, it branches off into smaller arteries, such as the conus artery and the sinoatrial nodal branch. Each branch ...

Optimal health depends on unobstructed blood flow to all our organs and tissues. Atherosclerosis obstructs blood flow acutely (e.g. heart attacks, strokes) or chronically. Prior columns in this series ...

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 ...

I lay on the bed of the CT scan at the Heart Hospital of Austin looking up at the ceiling as it moves into the CT tunnel. A voice through the speakers tells me to breathe in, hold my breath, then ...

"You may have 70% blocked arteries and feel perfectly fine", until one day the warning bells get loud. The arteries don't scream for help; they whisper. And most people turn a deaf ear to such ...

While on vacation with his wife last year, Peter Sunwoo heard about a healthy acquaintance who had a heart attack at 39 years old. He and a friend had just turned 40, so they decided to get their ...