Our series The Expert View brings you specialist health advice from professionals. In this article, we hear from Prof Dan Augustine, a consultant cardiologist and medical director of Sports Cardiology ...

Adult heart muscle has long been treated as tissue with very little capacity to replace cells lost during a heart attack. A new observation in living human samples complicates that picture: heart ...

Myocardial fibrosis—scarred heart muscle—was linked with increased risk of irregular heart rhythms among male endurance athletes, according to a new study published in the Circulation: Cardiovascular ...

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Your heart is one of the most important organs of the body. It pumps oxygenated blood to the body, helps in nutrient delivery in the body, sends oxygen-poor blood to the lungs, receives oxygen-rich ...

For decades physicians have advised their patients that exercises like jogging, walking, cycling and swimming will improve ...

Humans can’t regenerate heart muscle damaged by disease, but scientists have long known that some animals, such as zebrafish, can. Researchers have now identified a set of genes in zebrafish that ...

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 ...

Transferring mitochondria from a patient's healthy skeletal muscle to damaged, ischemic heart tissue has been shown to restore heart muscle, increase energy production, and improve ventricular ...

When you read about people dying of “natural causes,” it usually means that they died of heart failure because they spent too much time lying in bed. When you become inactive, you lose your skeletal ...

Heart failure often develops after a heart attack because excessive collagen-based scar tissue forms during repair. While ...