Crew Apple Watch has been shown to be able to detect heart attacks and to identify cardiac arrhythmias in combination with machine learning. Such collaboration between the Apple Watch and the medical ...

A new study has demonstrated that non-invasive cardiac mapping can accurately reconstruct three-dimensional electrical ...

Elevated resting heart rate is associated with greater risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality. In a 2-stage meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in up to 181,171 individuals, we ...

If you’re waking up tired even after seven or eight hours of sleep, your heart rate may be falling too far during the night.

Apple today announced it has launched a ResearchKit-based Apple Heart Study app, which uses the Apple Watch's heart rate sensor to collect data on irregular heart rhythms and notify users who may be ...

Steven Poelzing (left) and Gregory Hoeker, researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, collaborated on a new study published in the journal Heart Rhythm revealing why low blood ...

Researchers have identified a new gene responsible for a rare, inherited form of sudden cardiac arrest, known as Brugada syndrome. Using positional cloning and gene sequencing on an affected family, ...

If your heart suddenly shoots up to 150–170 bpm during exercise or even at rest, doctors say it could be supraventricular ...

Some of the medications being used to treat COVID-19 are known to cause drug-induced prolongation of the QTc of some people. Patients with a dangerously prolonged QTc are at increased risk for ...

Less than 1 percent of the population has been diagnosed with Long QT syndrome – a rare heart condition that can cause chaotic, sometimes fatal, heart rhythms. Now, Virginia Tech researchers at the ...