A sugar replacement called erythritol — used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products — has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death ...

Now, the American Heart Association is taking race out of the equation. The overhaul of the widely used cardiac-risk algorithm is an acknowledgment that, unlike sex or age, race identification in ...

that is also elevated by a heart attack. "And the echocardiogram — which creates images of the heart — typically shows a characteristic ballooning of the heart muscle," Gelbman explains.

The temporary rise in blood pressure increases the oxygen requirements and creates an extra burden on the heart. High blood pressure may also rupture cholesterol plaques in the arterial wall ...

“It creates the pulse, it creates the pressure, it is his heart,” said Dr. Bartley Griffith, the director of the cardiac transplant program at the medical center, who performed the operation.