People who regularly engage in significant amounts of exercise, as endurance athletes do, may develop enlarged hearts. While ...

An internationally accepted exercise test often used to determine whether patients with a common cardiac disorder should undergo open heart surgery is highly inaccurate, according to a recent study ...

One of the strongest predictors of long-term mortality among patients undergoing a cardiac stress test is the need for a pharmacologic versus treadmill test, new data show. Moreover, although the risk ...

A new intervention which keeps lungs regularly expanding when using a heart-lung machine during heart valve surgery might protect lung function and exercise capacity in adult patients after the ...

"ATTR amyloidosis was characterized by distinct patterns of functional impairment across all disease phenotypes, attributable to multiple physiological mechanisms. Multiple CPET parameters were ...

A higher pulmonary vascular resistance index during exercise, but not at rest, predicts poor clinical outcomes in adults with Fontan circulation, highlighting the value of invasive exercise testing.

Exercising at your max heart rate might leave you drenched in sweat, but that doesn’t mean it’s something you should do regularly. In fact, spending too much time in the high zone could cause symptoms ...

New research from the University of Leeds suggests that some male endurance athletes over 50 may face an increased risk of ...