Heart murmurs may be common in healthy children, indicating innocent murmurs, which are usually not concerning. However, in some cases, a child may be born with a heart defect that causes a murmur.

A heart murmur is, as the name suggests, a sound that occurs during a heartbeat, caused by rapid, turbulent blood flow ...

The systolic pressures were normal in most, being less than 100 mm. of mercury in 10, 100 to 119 mm. in 34, 120 to 139 mm. in 11 and 140 mm. in 2 cases.

Objectives We aimed to determine if auscultation or a point-of-care scan could reduce the need for standard echocardiography (transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE)) in community patients with ...

However, systolic murmurs may be heard in 30%-40% of elderly individuals and in most of these patients the murmurs do not reflect hemodynamically significant aortic stenosis. [1, 7] Classically ...

A common heart failure treatment comes with high risk of stroke—new discovery could make it safer by University of Colorado at Boulder edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

A common sleeping habit could be an early warning sign for dangerous hypertension or high blood pressure, research has revealed. People, particularly overweight middle-aged men, who regularly ...

The body relies on a constant supply of fresh blood and oxygen to function. Heart failure occurs when the heart can no longer pump the amount of blood the rest of the body needs. During a healthy ...

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This common nut can lower your risk of heart disease, dementia and diabetes The findings align with previous research highlighting the health benefits of almonds Andrea Cavallier in New York ...

Here are 3 of the most common and misunderstood red flags that may indicate something serious is going on with the heart. Each of these signs deserves a closer look, because the truth often hides ...