Being very overweight puts you at risk for heart disease even if you seem otherwise healthy—that is, even if you don’t have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, says Johns Hopkins ...

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 ...

A heart murmur considered to be innocent is frequently heard during the neonatal period. Braudo and Rowe reported a murmur in 60% of healthy newborn babies. 1 Although most murmurs are known to be ...