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MedStar Health Research Institute experts joined with the American Heart Association to issue a collaborative scientific statement about the important role of exercise in weight loss, weight manageme...

For your body, the heart and blood vessels function a lot like the plumbing in your home. The heart acts as a pump, the arteries are the pipes, and the blood is like water flowing through the house. ...

Your heart is a hard-working engine that pumps life-giving blood to every corner of your body. But an engine can only do its job if its fuel lines remain open and clear.  In the human body, th...

Our registry is helping more people get care for an underrecognized heart condition that sometimes causes patients years of unexplained pain and discomfort.    Imagine experiencing chest pa...

MedStar Health Research Institute led an international research team exploring how adding demographic and clinical context to echocardiographic AI screening improves detection so patients can access ...

Less than a century ago, heart disease was known as a “man’s disease.” As recently as the 1960s even the American Heart Association believed heart disease only affected men. Scienti...