Healthy hearts are adaptable, and heartbeats exhibit complex variation as they adjust to tiny changes in the body and environment. Researchers have applied a new way to measure the complexity of pulse ...

Men needed to do roughly nine hours of exercise to see a 30% reduction in their heart disease risk – while women only needed ...

Beats are also faster in moments of stress or excitement, after we’ve consumed caffeine and when we exercise. Some speculate that overdoing it at the gym or performing other intense physical ...

One of adulthood’s quiet regrets is not sleeping more when we had the chance. Yet sleep seems to get even more elusive with ...

Cardio – you either love it or hate it. If you’re not a seasoned runner who spends each Saturday clocking up PBs at your ...

When the pulse is very low, in the low 30s or slower, most experts will recommend treatment even if a person isn't noticing ...

Atrial fibrillation is estimated to affect up to 1 in 22 Americans – three times higher than projections from more than 20 ...

Hypertension can also raise the risk of other health problems, including kidney disease and dementia. The link between blood ...

Though temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate or considered the four main vital signs, there’s an argument to be made that how much you want it — you know, it — needs ...

A transplant patient has relived the day she was ‘blue lighted’ to a specialist hospital as her heart began to fail. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, you can get unlimited ...

Heart rate. Blood pressure. Sleep measurements. Blood oxygen levels. Once upon a time, these measurements were usually only ...