The study also found adding troponin tests meant that up to 8% of people classified as intermediate risk were changed to high ...

Sinus bradycardia, or a slow heart rate, can be a sign of cardiovascular health in healthy young adults and endurance athletes. It can also be a sign of an underlying condition requiring medical ...

Discover how one overlooked smartwatch metric can reveal hidden heart problems and why it may be the key to tracking real cardiovascular health.

I’m one of the lucky ones. In 2021, I had a heart attack in a ballroom full of people. I was in the middle of a dance – I’m a West Coast swing dancer – and my life would’ve been over if not for three ...

A lower DHRPS is better (something more like 0.008), Zhanlin Chen explains. This could signify someone who takes 10,000 steps ...

Researchers suggest that dividing the average daily heart rate by the number of daily steps from wearables can offer insights ...

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better.

Wearable gadgets did little more than count steps when they first appeared, promising to assess a user's health depending on whether they hit 10,000 a day.