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“While in our contemporary life, we are constantly pushed to activate our sympathetic response, when we proactively practice mindfulness, self-compassion, meditate, and breathe slowly, it’s the vagus ...

If you have high blood pressure, getting regular exercise is important -- and your Apple Watch makes it easy to check it.

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A normal resting heart rate for most adults is between 60 and 100 beats per minute. But people who exercise may have lower heart rates, with some athletes showing resting rates as low as 40 beats per ...

Given the current trends, heart failure with normal ejection fraction will become the most common form of heart failure, for which we do not currently have an evidence-based successful treatment.

Definition of Heart Failure Normal Ejection Fraction Heart failure (HF) comprises overlapping phenotypes affecting contractile and diastolic function to variable extents.

A good heart rate is one within a healthy range. We asked cardiologists how to know what a good heart rate is— what to do if it isn't.

The authors present an investigation into the incidences of ectopy and artefact as a function of time of day, heart rate and state changes for 19 normal subjects. State changes are defined to be a ...

Resting heart rate (RHR) serves as a sensitive indicator of autonomic nervous system activity, reflecting the balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic functions (6). Research has shown that ...

Q) I AM 82 years old and my pulse fluctuates between 80bpm and 55bpm. Is this normal? A) Strictly speaking, a normal resting heart is defined as being between 60 and 100 beats per minute.