How to Check Your Heart Rate at Home (and What It Reveals About Your Health)

There are many tools available to check your heart rate, but if you don’t have one, you can still obtain an accurate reading using your pulse and counting in your head or using a stopwatch or timer. Read More

What Resting Heart Rate Says About Your Health and the No. 1 Way to Improve It

A lower resting heart rate can indicate your heart is more efficient. Cardiologist explains normal resting heart rate and how to lower it with exercise. Read More

What a 'Normal' Resting Heart Rate Should Really Be

A heart rate that averages above 100 beats per minute is called tachycardia. You can develop a high heart rate because of things like fever, anaemia, dehydration, or physical or emotional stress, ... Read More

12 Ways To Lower Your Heart Rate

Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ... Read More

Cardiologists say you might need these 4 heart monitoring devices to check your heart health at home

Monitoring your blood pressure at home can help you and your doctor identify trends in readings. (Getty Creative) Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S., ... Read More

This quick ratio can tell you ‘how badly your heart is doing’ — all you need is a smartwatch

The path to better heart health might just run through your wrist. Scientists at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have developed a new way to assess cardiovascular fitness using ... Read More

This New Heart-Health Measurement Goes Beyond Step Count—And Could Help Identify Silent Heart Disease

It's no secret that your smartwatch churns out all kinds of data on a regular basis, including your daily step count and your average heart rate, which provides helpful insights into your health and ... Read More

4 Surprising Ways Healthy Heart Habits Benefit Your Whole Body

A new review shows that the benefits of cardiovascular health extend from head to toe. By Nina Agrawal Doctors have long endorsed a handful of practices that protect against heart disease, the leading ... Read More

‘I’m a Cardiologist, and Here’s When It’s Totally Normal for Your Heart to Race’

It can be worrisome when your heart starts to pick up the pace, but here's when it's totally normal if your heart races. Suddenly ramping up what you’re doing requires more energy, which requires more ... Read More