Atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat), which causes poor blood flow, is another cardiovascular condition that can cause ...

New research reveals the danger of ‘fatty muscles’, but there are steps you can take to protect yourself against this hard-to-detect risk ...

People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalised from a heart attack or heart failure, regardless of their body mass index, according to ...

New research published in the European Heart Journal reveals that 'muscle fat' around muscles can increase the risk of death or hospitalization due to ...

There are different types of angina: stable, unstable, microvascular ... cause the heart to fail and lead to sudden death. Coronary artery disease is a common cause of heart attacks, and some ...

Study: Skeletal muscle adiposity, coronary microvascular dysfunction ... Another critical factor in heart disease is CMD, characterized by impaired blood flow despite normal arteries.

Researchers found an independent association between increased intermuscular fat, not BMI, and major CV events and coronary microvascular ... thrombosis and coronary disease from 2024.

Korpisalo notes that in the future, the disease could potentially be screened by imaging microvascular over-dilation. The development of treatments targeting these transformations could also ...

This is the first study to comprehensively investigate the effects of fatty muscles on heart disease ... blood vessels that serve the heart (coronary microvascular dysfunction or CMD), and ...