You must have heard about clogged arteries or atherosclerosis? This is a condition where plaque – a waxy substance made of fat, cholesterol, and calcium – builds up in the arteries, which makes them ...

If you're worried about clogged arteries, you're in good company: Over 40 percent of adults have some blockage. Though it's a daunting statistic, there's plenty you can do to support healthy, ...

Air pollution could be contributing to clogged arteries, a new study says. People exposed long-term to common air pollutants have an increased risk of advanced heart disease caused by hardened ...

Heart disease rarely begins with a dramatic moment. Instead, it often develops quietly through everyday habits, especially with what appears on the dinner plate. Many popular foods that taste ...

CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) -- Research being conducted here in the Bay Area could provide a major advance for heart patients. Surgeons at John Muir Medical Center in Concord are implanting patients with a ...

In most heart attacks, the cause is clogged arteries. Well, at least in men. For women, the situation is different. In a little more than half of the time, heart attacks in women are prompted by other ...

Opening all blocked arteries with stents in patients with a heart attack, known as complete revascularization, reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular causes, death from any cause and future ...

A new Mayo Clinic study finds that many heart attacks in people under 65 - especially women - are caused by factors other than clogged arteries, challenging long-standing assumptions about how heart ...

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