Age for increased heart risk According to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the risk of heart disease rises when waist size expands beyond 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men.

The target heart rate zone for fat-burn aligns with moderate-not intense-exercise, McDowell explains. If you are in the vigorous intensity zone 3, you won't be burning as much fat as possible.

Hidden fat stored deep within muscles can significantly raise your risk of heart disease, heart attacks, and heart failure, even if you appear healthy based on standard measures like body mass ...

You’re most likely to have heard about belly fat, stored around the abdominal region. But have you also heard about epicardial fat that builds around the heart? If you haven’t, Dr Amit Kumar Chaurasia ...

If your aim for exercise is fat loss, you'll probably be wanting to know if there's an optimum heart rate zone for burning fat. And, well, it's a confusing one.

Accumulation of fat around the heart has long been linked to cardiovascular and metabolic disease but until now there hasn’t been a simple way to measure this. A new AI tool has been developed ...

Heart attacks scar the heart, leaving patients vulnerable to heart rhythm disorders that can lead to sudden death. While not all who have experienced a cardiac infarction will develop an arrhythmia, ...

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That clog can lead to heart attack and stroke. Not only was this the largest study of secondary heart attack risk, but it is the first of its kind to analyze men and women separately, Mohammadi added.

Distress signal from fat cells prompts heart to shore up defenses against consequences of obesity Date: August 22, 2021 Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center Summary: A stress signal received by ...

Women with high pericardial fat volume (PFV), defined as more than 70 cc or 2.4 fluid ounces, had double the risk of developing heart failure. For men, high PFV, defined as more than 120 cc or 4.0 ...