According to data published on Jan. 5 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), visits to the doctor for ...

Five major pregnancy complications are strong lifelong risk factors for ischemic heart disease, a new study finds, with the greatest risk coming in the decade after delivery. Ischemic heart disease ...

Doctors have long understood the link between pregnancy complications and longer-term heart risk New research suggests genes may be at play, since the sisters of women with pregnancy complications ...

Women and men experience similar rates of dangerous complications after a major heart surgery. So why are women dying at higher rates than men when these complications strike? That's the main question ...

Women who have experienced pregnancy complications have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Now, a new study shows that sisters of women with complicated pregnancies are also at higher risk, ...

DALLAS, March 31, 2022 — People who survive an ischemic stroke are much more likely to develop major heart complications during the first month after their stroke, and, as a result, they also have an ...

A patent foramen ovale is an opening that some adults have between the top two chambers of their hearts. Everyone has this opening early in life, but it often seals during infancy. In some people, ...

Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more of your heart valves don't work properly.

Major heart complications soon after a stroke can put survivors at higher risk for a heart attack, death or another stroke within five years, new research shows. Heart problems after a stroke are ...