Scientists have developed a simple blood test that can predict which heart disease patients face the greatest risk of life-threatening complications.
Dr Ramakanta Panda, one of the world's leading heart surgeons and the chairman and chief cardiac surgeon at Mumbai's Asian Heart Institute, recommends simple things you can do every day to keep your heart healthy.
Those who drink milk with their tea should seriously consider going without on occasion, in order to boost the healthiness of their heart.
Evidence from a large study of several thousand patients shows that men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 in their blood than women. Since ACE2 enables coronavirus to infect healthy cells, this may help to explain why men are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than women.
A study has found that found that people did not recognise that women who collapsed were having a cardiac arrest, leading to delays in calling the emergency services and delays in providing resuscitation treatment.
Many patients are prescribed NSAIDs for the treatment of painful conditions, fever and inflammation.