(The Conversation) – Your heart beats around 100,000 times every day. Heart rate is a key marker of cardiovascular activity and an important vital sign. But your pulse is not as steady as a precision ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) typically increases with parasympathetic activation (rest-and-digest response) and decreases with sympathetic activation (fight-or-flight response). The autonomic nervous ...

Even mild dehydration can negatively affect your brain functioning and attention span, so it could be holding you back at work and getting in the way of your goals. Drinking a glass of water could ...

Your heart beats around 100,000 times every day. Heart rate is a key marker of cardiovascular activity and an important vital sign. But your pulse is not as steady as a precision clock – nor would you ...

Here’s what this health metric really indicates, according to cardiologists. Fact checked by Isaac Winter Reviewed by Vivek Cherian, MD Heart rate variability (HRV) is the difference in the timing ...

The rhythmic beating of your heart tells a more complex story than most realize. While standard health assessments typically focus on heart rate, the subtle variations between individual heartbeats ...

Tracking key heart health metrics every day helps you understand how your lifestyle affects your cardiovascular system and empowers you to take proactive steps toward better heart health. Heart ...

RheumCenter is a medical office run by Dr. Viviane Bunin, a physician with a medical degree in rheumatology and a doctorate in immunology. The challenge she was facing was not in using her new heart ...