New research suggests pericardial fat, the fat around your heart, may be a strong risk factor for heart failure regardless of your body weight.

Finding your ideal fat-burning heart rate is just one piece of the puzzle. To lose weight effectively, you must pair your workouts with a healthy diet, adequate sleep, and stress management.

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 ...

Fat around the heart, known as pericardial fat, can double the risk of heart failure, a study found. But being lean may not mean you're healthy — even people who aren't obese or overweight can ...

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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The presence of intramuscular fat could pose a hidden risk even in individuals with normal BMIs, suggesting that current methods of assessing heart disease risk might need updating.

Furthermore, every 1% increase in muscle-based fat led to a 7% increased risk of developing future serious heart-disease risk. These findings were independent of someone's total fat, measured in ...

The PURE diet finds six food groups — fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, fish and whole-fat dairy — can lower the risk of heart disease. And there’s room in a healthy diet for whole grains ...

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.