The heart's performance as a pump The heart's function is to pump the blood and circulate it round the body. We assess the heart's performance by measuring how much blood it pumps out each minute.

The heart's performance as a pump The heart's function is to pump the blood and circulate it round the body. We assess the heart's performance by measuring how much blood it pumps out each minute.

Developed by Northwestern Engineering’s Igor Efimov and George Washington University’s Luyao Lu, the implantable device uses ...

The system was designed with high spatial (0.1mm ... From these signals we simultaneously determine peak and mean aortic velocities and acceleration as indices of cardiac output by Doppler studies and ...

The changes in the cardiovascular system associated with aging are a ... can radically affect the measurements of cardiovascular function in the elderly and changes in physical activity can ...

Obesity significantly impacts cardiovascular health, increasing risks such as left ventricular hypertrophy, atherosclerosis, and hypertension. Pharmaceuticals play a crucial role in addressing these ...

Drinking ketones improves heart health, a new small-scale study from the University of Portsmouth has found. The research is ...

The clinical chemistry test is intended to help diagnose heart failure using the N-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide biomarker.