Taking your heart rate on your body rather than the machine is more accurate. When using a treadmill, here is how to do that. After all, a machine's recording may be very innacurate. Though checking [...]
An elevated resting heart rate is associated with an increased risk of death from all causes. This includes cardiovascular disease. Are you familiar with what your pulse normally is when you're at rest? If not, you'd [...]
What does it mean if a physically fit person has a fast resting heart rate? Do you exercise a lot, consider yourself physically fit, but have a fast resting heart rate and wonder if this [...]
So if exercise lowers resting heart rate, why do some sedentary “lazy” people have very slow heart rates? Yes, this is very possible: A totally out of shape person who gets zero structured exercise could [...]
If your resting heart rate is 100 to 105, you’d better read this article to find out what the bad news is. The straight question is: Can a resting heart rate of 100 to 105 [...]
Waking in the middle of the night with a racing heart can have minor to serious causes. Have you been awakening in the middle of the night to find that your heart is racing? Below [...]
There are other ways to lower a fast resting heart rate besides exercise and meditation. Suppose you’re healthy but your resting heart rate remains fast, despite regular exercise and attempts at stress management or meditation. [...]
How is it possible for an elderly person (over age 65) to have a low resting heart rate along with severe coronary artery disease (CAD)? Before my mother had CABG x 5, her resting heart [...]
“Feeling of the pulse at different locations in the body can be completely normal,” says Chester M. Hedgepeth, III, MD, PhD, Executive Chief of Cardiology at Care New England. “Importantly, all the arteries in the [...]
Is your resting pulse fast and you're worried that this will eventually cause harm to your heart? And can this damage the heart if you're otherwise healthy? Can a fast resting pulse, in and of [...]
Don't kid yourself: Women's heart disease is very different from men's in more ways than you may be thinking, and that includes the effect that stress has on the heart. Dr. Gordon A. Ewy, MD, explains [...]
Ever notice an increase in heart rate when eating or swallowing? Perhaps you can feel your heart rate increase upon eating or swallowing; or, maybe you accidentally discovered this by happening to take your pulse [...]
If your heart races after you climb a flight of stairs, here’s one reason why and how to solve this problem. When I worked as a personal trainer at a large gym, I’d have my [...]
Find out what can happen if stress is causing your resting heart rate to be in the 90s. Have you noticed that whenever you take your resting heart rate, it’s in the 90s, even though [...]
A cardiologist explains what causes resting heart rate to speed up as the day goes on. “The resting heart rate is the lowest at night while sleeping as well as during the first minutes after [...]
Find out what a cardiologist has to say about how long resting heart rate should stay elevated after intense exercise. Those who faithfully exercise will be curious about resting heart rate. “Pulse should be elevated [...]
A fast resting pulse is not good for the heart, and unfortunately, a stressful life can cause this. Stress is bad for the heart, and one way this is so is because chronic stress or [...]
Find out why it’s a myth that all athletes or gym rats have a low resting heart rate. Do you work out hard at the gym and even do high intensity interval training, yet are [...]
My mother had quintuple bypass surgery, so I was inspired to interview a cardiothoracic surgeon to answer the many questions I had. These questions are based on my mother’s symptoms and other concerns following surgery. [...]
A cardiologist explains what can cause your heart to suddenly race. We all know that anxiety or fear can cause your heart to suddenly race, but what’s behind this in the absence of any fear, [...]
A cardiologist explains why eating can cause your heart to beat fast. Ever experience a fast heartbeat soon after eating? There is a specific reason for this. Fast Heart Rate After Eating “This is [...]
Does a slow resting pulse mean you don’t have heart disease? Think again if you believe your slow resting heart rate means you can’t possibly have heart disease – even severe heart disease, also known as [...]
