Simple lifestyle changes can make a big difference in managing heart disease. Discover advice for coping with challenges you and your loved ones may face.

Learn how regular aerobic exercise can decrease heart stiffness and improve diastolic dysfunction and quality of life. Recent evidence strongly suggests that regular aerobic exercise can help reverse the “stiffening” of the heart muscle caused...

Find out about natural remedies for peripheral artery disease that may help this condition, including vitamin D and ginkgo biloba. Peripheral artery disease (also referred to as "peripheral arterial disease" or "PAD") is a condition marked by a...

Except for taking a few simple precautions, living with a pacemaker should be very much like living without a pacemaker. A pacemaker is a small electronic device that is implanted under the skin to help regulate the heart rhythm. Most pacemakers are...

From the stress of shoveling snow to the risk of contracting the flu or hypothermia, cold weather can be very dangerous for people with heart disease. If you have heart disease, staying healthy during cold weather presents special challenges. For...

In people with heart disease, depression can lead to further problems like stroke and heart attack. Here we look at antidepressant medications. In people with heart disease, depression is more likely to lead to heart attack, stroke and chest pain...

Having heart disease usually doesn't mean you have to give up traveling by air. Here are guidelines to safely fly with heart disease. If you have heart disease, you can fly safely as a passenger on an airplane, but you need to be aware of your...

Most men who have heart disease are able to safely take the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra, even though it can lower blood pressure. Viagra (sildenafil) has been life-changing for many people with erectile dysfunction (ED), making it...