Having a seemingly random heart attack when you have no history of heart disease or clogged arteries is absolutely terrifying. And when the reason for that heart attack goes misdiagnosed by doctors, ...

A new Mayo Clinic study finds that many heart attacks in people under 65—especially women—are caused by factors other than clogged arteries, challenging long-standing assumptions about how heart ...

A new study suggests that more than half of all heart attacks in women under 65 are actually not the result of a clogged artery – which is the most common cause of heart attacks in men. The majority ...

Share on Pinterest More than half of heart attacks in younger females could stem from causes other than artery blockage. Tashdique Mehtaj Ahmed/Getty Images Doctors often assume heart attacks in ...

For decades, surviving a heart attack has come with a lifelong prescription: Stay on medications called beta-blockers to help protect your heart. But doctors are taking a closer look at whether ...

Heart attacks are still frequently perceived as a male condition. Yet, cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death among women in many countries. Several studies show that the ...

Heart attacks rarely look dramatic, and that is what makes them dangerous. Based on cardiologist insights and real patient experiences, most heart attacks begin with subtle signs that feel ordinary.

They aren’t all sudden or intense, experts says. By Jancee Dunn I had a relative who experienced chest pain one afternoon. He brushed it off, and said that he’d sleep on it and that if he still felt ...

Heart disease is a leading cause of death across the globe. In the United States, someone suffers a heart attack every 40 seconds. Now, new research in mice suggests that after such an event, the ...