heart health

In 2015, when Denise Castille experienced swollen feet and then heart palpitations, she visited her doctor and a cardiologist. Both said she was fine. She wasn’t. Soon after, the then 46-year-old had a “widow-maker” heart attack, a term used to refer to a serious heart attack occurring when a major artery in the heart is blocked. It’s often called a...

Doctors are reminding all adults, and especially younger women, to be on the lookout for symptoms of heart disease for American Heart Health Month. Warning signs for women can be subtle: shortness of breath, jaw or back pain, or stroke-like symptoms including weakness in one side of the body.

Seemingly contradictory findings show why more research into the effects of cannabis on the heart and the rest of the body is needed.

Researchers say a cheap, daily pill combining four cholesterol and blood pressure medicines taken with low-dose aspirin can cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart-related deaths by nearly one third.

Researchers using Medicare records found that heart attack patients who turned 80 within the previous two weeks were less likely to get bypass surgery than those who were two weeks shy of that birthday.

More than half of black women in the United States have heart disease. One suburban woman could have been a part of that statistic until she took her health to heart.

Michelle Emebo was pregnant with her daughter in 2016 when she was diagnosed with hypertension. Even with medication, her blood pressure remained so high after her daughter’s birth, that her doctor wanted to increase her medication. That’s when Emebo knew she had to make a change. “Both my parents have hypertension,” she explained. “Both my parents have had strokes....

More than half of African-American women in the U.S. has heart disease. That diagnosis was likely in the future of one suburban Chicago woman, until she took her health to heart and lost 75 pounds. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty has her story.