A recent study finds that much of the cardiovascular disease seen in severely overweight people is driven by more than diabetes and high blood pressure.

BACKGROUND: Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes is a potentially curative strategy for ischemic heart ...

The global burden of rheumatic heart disease continues to be significant although it is largely limited to poor and marginalized populations. In most endemic regions, affected patients present with ...

In recent years, many approaches have been proposed for automated heart sound analysis. However, most of these algorithms separate the two steps required for an accurate detection of abnormal cardiac ...

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

In the past 52 years, deaths from heart attacks have declined by nearly 90 percent, the study found, and overall heart disease death rates dropped by 66 percent. However, researchers have tracked an ...

Studies of the epidemiology of heart failure in the general population can inform assessments of disease burden, research, public health policy and health system care delivery. We performed a ...

Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a prevalent, disabling and costly condition at the neurology–psychiatry intersection. After being marginalised in the late 20th century, there has been ...

THE MAKING OF ME Edith Bowman: At 29, I was in a cycle of eat, sleep, rave - until I found a heart murmur The Scottish radio and television presenter shares the moments that shaped her, from ...

Accurate measurement of heart sound and murmur parameters is of great importance in the automated analysis of phonocardiogram (PCG) signals. In this paper, we propose a novel unified PCG signal ...