Your arteries play an important role in your cardiovascular health, transporting blood from the heart to all of the body’s cells. And that’s especially true for your carotid (neck) arteries, since ...

Heart disease usually ranks as the number one cause of death among Americans, according to the CDC. It’s a broad category, encompassing a fair number of different illnesses and variations of disorders ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD), better known as clogged arteries, is the leading cause of death in the United States, ...

In this day and age, with so much information available online, it is important to keep yourself educated on how you can stay in the best of your health. If you are looking for ways to enhance your ...

Each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 735,000 people have a heart attack and 610,000 people die of coronary heart disease (CHD). That ...

Every year, about 800,000 people in the United States – one person, every 40 seconds – suffer strokes, according to the American Stroke Association. But perhaps more surprising is the fact that 80% of ...

(Reuters Health) – - In a Finnish study spanning 26 years, kids exposed to parental smoking were more likely to develop plaque in their carotid arteries as young adults than kids who were not exposed ...