Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Until Jennifer Cortes joined a patient advocacy ...

The term Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) encompasses a range of structural cardiac anomalies that persist into adulthood, often as a consequence of improvements in paediatric diagnostics and ...

Clinicians caring for patients with congenital heart disease are now facing a growing challenge: managing the condition in adults. Often adults born with congenital heart disease fall through the ...

Around the globe, heart disease remains one of the top causes of death. Once patients begin to suffer from serious heart problems, like heart attacks and heart failure, the heart muscles become ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

A national study suggests that cavities and gum disease in childhood may echo decades later in the arteries, reinforcing the idea that protecting young smiles could also help safeguard lifelong heart ...

How can young adults address potential heart risks later in life as they mature into adulthood? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association hopes to address ...

Children with low vitamin D levels face a greater risk of early heart disease, according to a decades-long Finnish study. Could early supplementation shift the tide on cardiovascular prevention?

Gayatri A. Acharya, MD: Greetings. I'm Dr Gayatri Acharya, cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic. During today's recording, we'll be discussing living into adulthood with congenital heart disease in the ...