Heart Health

This article explains the different types of physical activity and their benefits for our muscles, heart, and lungs. It recommends specific types of exercise within each category and how much of each type of exercise we might want to do.

A collection of hopeful and uplifting stories from people who have undergone heart transplants.

Find groups and organizations that are spreading awareness of how women's heart health differs from that of men and advocating for improvements in the diagnosis and treatment women's heart health.

This article explores the utility of ejection fraction for heart failure patients and provides other means of understanding the condition better.

This article provides a detailed overview of heart failure in women, addressing causes, types, symptoms, diagnostic testing, prevention, and treatment.

This video, from Harvard Medical Grand Rounds, includes several presentations on reproductive health for medical providers in internal medicine.

A brief, gender-neutral overview of what happens to the body during atrial fibrillation, including causes, symptoms, interventions, and treatments.

Doctors introduce the basics of atrial fibrillation (an irregular heart rhythm) and hypertension (high blood pressure).

Dr. Dara Lee Lewis, discusses diagnosis, treatment, and living with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

Dr. Dara Lee Lewis highlights the causes and symptoms of POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), which more often affects women than men.

Variety, moderation, and eating plants, including whole grains, are important parts of a heart healthy diet.

Our Bodies Ourselves content expert Maggie Teliska offers tools to cope with anxiety, from the perspective of a heart failure patient.