At one time, heart rate monitors were the exclusive property of physicians and nurses, but that’s all changed as the technology has become available to just about anyone who wants it. Got an afternoon workout scheduled? If your treadmill doesn’t have a built in heart rate monitor, you can still use the heart rate monitor [...]

Having a build-up of calcium plaque in the arteries means increased risk of heart attacks and death from heart disease in multiple ethnic groups, according to new findings from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Previous studies have shown that [...]

Every year more women die from heart attacks and strokes than men. This is the primary reason the American Heart Association is updating it’s heart disease prevention guidelines in women.
The 2007 Guidelines for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Women - published in a special womens health issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association - [...]