Heart health is an essential part of your overall health and well-being. Your primary care provider will monitor your blood pressure and lab work during an annual physical exam or more frequently. If ...

Chest discomfort, shortness of breath, or an unusual heartbeat may lead a doctor to check how the heart performs under added strain. A cardiac stress test measures that response during exercise or ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. Echocardiograms. Stress tests. Cardiac calcium tests. You may well have had some or all of these. Your doctor may have ...

Heart disease and kidney disease are closely linked, and kidney damage can remain silent for years. These simple blood, urine ...

It's common for patients to schedule an office visit due to symptoms like shortness of breath from doing regular tasks, feeling heart palpitations, experiencing mild chest pain, or feeling weak or ...

The Lp(a) test measures an inherited cholesterol particle linked to heart attack and stroke. Learn why cardiologists recommend testing once.

Broken heart syndrome” can mimic a heart attack so closely that patients often need invasive testing to tell the difference.

New research published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings has shown that patients who can complete a workout on a treadmill during a cardiac stress test have much lower mortality risk than those ...

People might be surprised by what's not included in the checkup that family-medicine physician Lynn Oliver, M.D., provides her healthy patients: no EKG, no stress test, no 3D CT scan. Instead, just a ...