This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Atherosclerosis happens when a fatty substance called plaque builds up inside your arteries. There are typically few noticeable ...

Aortic stenosis is a disease of the heart valve. It involves the narrowing of the aortic heart valve, which reduces blood flow. The condition may cause a person to feel fatigued due to restricted ...

Do you notice your elderly parents becoming breathless after light activity or feeling unusually tired even while resting? It is easy to overlook such signs as normal ageing, but occasionally the ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve that affects how blood flows through the heart and body. While not often linked to heart valve narrowing, high and irregular blood pressure can ...

The aortic valve allows blood to leave the heart and travel through the aorta, which is the largest artery in the body. Aortic stenosis is when this heart valve narrows and doesn’t open fully. The ...

Rotterdam, the Netherlands - Four measures of extracoronary atherosclerosis independently and strongly predict the incidence of MI, data from the Rotterdam Study suggest [1]. The study report, by Dr ...